Word: bagger
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...Frias has the gregarious demeanor of a born salesman and is a proven manager as well, with deep experience in the grocery business. And he's used to marketing to disparate clienteles. Born in Spain, he moved to Washington as a teenager. He got his first job as a bagger at Safeway in 1967 and eventually rose to the position of country-operations manager, a job that sent him to the Middle East in 1984 to open and manage Safeway's stores in Jordan and Saudi Arabia. Eight years later, he returned to the U.S. to open his own supermarket...
...formula of Bringing Down the House is old; it’s your basic Bagger Vance meets Mrs. Doubtfire. Lack of conceptual originality isn’t a problem, however, since the plot is of secondary importance to the brilliant comedic acting from all the cast members. Director Adam Shankman, whose previous work includes A Walk to Remember and The Wedding Planner, takes a much appreciated hands-off approach, letting the actors take the mediocre script to unexpected heights of hilarity...
Perhaps because both names are connected with golf, the high-minded reformers who want to drag the Augusta National Golf Club into the 21st century seem to have mixed up Tiger Woods with Bagger Vance--the angelic black caddy in the eponymous film who uses supernatural powers to help a white golf pro get over the yips and straighten out his love life. Or perhaps they have confused the world's best golfer with the hulking black convict in The Green Mile, played so powerfully by Michael Clarke Duncan, who never gets a chance to use his supernatural powers...
...folk live. (Didn't David Lynch and South Park kill that canard?) It would be forgivable if the show were better written, like the WB's wholesome but sassy mother-daughter comedy Gilmore Girls. Most unfortunate is Everwood's narrator, the town school-bus driver, who's in the Bagger Vance tradition of the wise black man put on earth to comment on the white stars' spiritual healing. And for every flash of Gilmore-esque zippy dialogue, there's a groaner. When Brown proposes the Colorado move, Ephram says, "That's Harrison-Ford-in-Mosquito-Coast crazy!" Brown responds...
Doubles were Harvard’s weapon of choice in the fourth inning. as Wallace led off the frame with a two-bagger down the leftfield line. Carter followed up with a double of his own, tying up the game...