Word: charley
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...What was Charley Hustle thinking by denying that he bet on baseball games? John Dowd, special counsel to major league baseball, had prepared a 225-page report that had almost every bookie in America saying Rose bet on baseball...
MacDonald took a hit to the back of the head in the third period of Harvard's 6-2 win over Yale last Friday. After showing symptoms of a concussion, he left the game and took Saturday off as a precautionary measure. Bourbeau is suffering from a charley horse...
...stand-up comedy and you don't," Steven tells Lilah. And this paradoxical statement is the crux of the movie. Steven coaches Lilah in the subtleties of being funny--convincing her that if she's late getting home, it's funny...because the babysitter's name is Charley Manson...
...lissena this. Richard Condon useta write very funny stuff, right up there with George V. Higgins, but lately there is too much stuff and not enough funny. Mainly, this third book of the Prizzi series, about the good-guy Mafia assassin Charley Partanna, needs a dose of bran. In Condon's mad early novels -- The Oldest Confession, The Manchurian Candidate -- marvelous characters seethed with venality and obsession. In the current book there is still enough corruption to go around, but not much narrative drive. Condon's Mafia greedsters now own 32% of what there...
...John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley...