Word: wimp
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...over when the young director cast him in an 8-mm movie called Battle Squad. At Phoenix's Arcadia High School, Spielberg found fellow spirits in the theater-arts program-"my leper colony. That's when I realized there were options besides being a jock or a wimp...
...CREDIT, however, he results some of the tough-guy cliches he spouts forth in his pompously awful weekly column about magazines in the Boston Globe. He gives himself the perfect tough-guy target--a wimpy prison bureaucrat who mouths the tired liberal dogma about "rehabilitation," Oh. Higgins destroys the wimp alright, but just when we expect the sermon about how the only thing dese guys understands is a kick in the ass. Higgins surprises us. And the worldly warden says, "my way wasn't very successful either' And he adds...
...Hitler, on the other Albert Schweitzer. Are people in books like this? People in books ought to be human beings. Let us consider human beings in books Consider the men in Tess of the D'Uhervilles, written by a man Alex D'Urbervile, a rake. Angel Clare, a total wimp Dogs Hardy hate men? Consider Dickens, a man, writing about men. Now those are men I would love to have in my living room Consider...
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...wasn't quick enough.' " Adds Fisher: "It was such a bizarre scene that I was speechless. Maybe I should have busted Burton in the mouth and thrown him out of the house." Maybe, but if Taylor was the Face, and Burton the Voice, Fisher was the Wimp...