Word: journeyman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...American Express advertisement yet, he has merited a lite beer commercial. Toward the end of his career, Bonds moved around the league about as fast as he did around the bases (461 career steals). Ten points if you can name the only club listed below which the journeyman did not play for in his 14-year major league career...
Some merchants say they wouldn't have minded if Oktoberfest had been scrapped altogether. An attendant at Journeyman's, a John F. Kennedy St. craft store, said that a passerby had thrown a soda can at the store...
Jason Robards was a journeyman actor when he auditioned for Director Jose Quintero in 1956 for a revival of Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh. After reading for another role, Robards asked for a chance to try the climactic final monologue of the central character, Hickey, a backslapping little salesman some two decades older than the lean, magisterial Robards was then. Of the reading, Quintero says: "The way he peeled away Hickey's cheerful front to get to the madness and guilt underneath was terrifying." Robards got the part, the production established both him and Quintero as major forces...
...setting for this new-wave Casablanca, Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas were inspired choices as the defenders of law and order. Both were picked only after the network had auditioned dozens of candidates and had twice delayed shooting the pilot. NBC had particular doubts about Johnson, 35, a journeyman actor who had appeared earlier in several unsuccessful pilots. A Missouri native, Johnson made his movie debut at age 20 in The Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart, and later starred in such films as A Boy and His Dog and the TV mini-series From Here to Eternity...
...matter. Adler's greatest pleasure is in reaching ordinary people, prodding what he believes to be the innate desire to learn. Proudly, he shows a recent letter from David Call, a journeyman plumber in Utah: "I am writing on behalf of a group of construction workers (mostly plumbers!)," notes Call, "who have finally found a teacher worth listening to. We have been studying your books for over a year now and have put together a sizable library of your writings. We may be plumbers during the day, but at lunch time and at night and on weekends, we are philosophers...