Word: maxing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...shouldn't I make a buck off this thing?" Max, 52, asked as he thumbed through journals such as Presidential Studies Quarterly, The American Scholar and Political Science Quarterly while researching the appropriate point spread. Max, who has run a small book for 20 years to supplement his income from various odd jobs, takes wagers on ponies, ball games and everything else, including "two rats running across the street." He's booked local elections in the past but decided to try the big leagues this time, thanks in part to the money-grubbing example set by the candidates. "These guys...
There were two reasons Max Nevis, like most other Americans who live beyond the Beltway, could not bring himself to watch much of the Republican wingding staged in his very own South Philadelphia neighborhood last week. No. 1, he cares too much about serious political discourse to waste time on scripted promises and flying brickbats. No. 2, he was busy handicapping the campaign for the bookmaking operation he runs out of his modest little row house...
Being a bookie is no more uncommon in South Philadelphia than being, say, a pizza-pie maker. Sure, it's illegal. But Max (whose real name is being withheld to protect his operation and Campaign Diary's wager) wonders what's the greater crime: a row-house palooka's supporting his family by offering a convenient alternative to government-run lottery bamboozles, or the fact that American public policy and the Lincoln Bedroom are for sale to the highest bidders...
...Mist). He also has a knack for working in comedy, which is rare among his peers and which has served him well in lighter fare, such as Harry and the Hendersons, two Batman movies and his work with Murphy. He has other makeup skills beyond the dreams of Max Factor: old age (The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman), space aliens (the first Star Wars and Men in Black), lycanthropes (Wolf and An American Werewolf in London) and dead movie stars. Using a chin cleft and extended ears, he helped Martin Landau turn into Bela Lugosi in Tim Burton...
...Hillary has her brother Tony to thank for many of these details, since Tony told Oppenheimer about a cousin, Oscar Dowdy, who became the source for them. Dowdy also says that Hillary's mother was given to making anti-Jewish slurs (some about Hillary's grandmother's second husband Max Rosenberg...