Word: watchings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...watch Haystack Calhoun--whom I had interviewed before the match and found to be 620 pounds of the gentlest man I have ever met--sitting on some other huge man just wasn't funny. It was embarrassing...
There is a Good Guy and a Bad Guy in each match. The crowd identifies with the Good Guy and triumphs with him over the Bad Guy. They watch the Good Guy help the Bad Guy make an ass out of himself. And the bigger ass the Bad Guy makes of himself, the more they approve. The louder they laugh...
...bursting out all around you, and you wonder how long it will be before you're as nuts as Mayor Daley and his cops. So what can you do? You can cancel your subscription to the Times and start reading Field and Stream. Or hide in your room and watch I Dream of Jeannie on TV. Or take drugs and forget about everything...
Miller runs Providence-based Textron in low-key Yankee style. A model of blue-serge conservatism, he earns $181,000 a year but operates from a modest little office. His headquarters staff is lean ?only 105 people. With them, Miller keeps close watch on the spending and planning of Textron's subsidiaries...
...fondly and ruefully with flawed and crummy people (Billy Liar, Jubb), starts in an ordinary way-burying his hero to the neck in an anthill of character defects. What is unusual is that Waterhouse then proceeds to spread a blanket, unpack a box lunch, and invite the reader to watch the fun. William, the hero, is a 35-year-old Londoner of such low spiritual energy that he cannot be said to have anything so definite as a desire. But when he remembers to be wistful, he thinks vaguely that it would be nice if his life had more color...