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...Sam Runyon, his communications director, told the Financial Times: “Senator Manchin is always willing to engage in discussions about the best way to move our country forward....
...How could I not, the schoolboy who lost himself in Poe and Hawthorne; Mailer and ee cummings; Runyon and Nathanael West; Bellow and Carver; I, who can tell you where to find the best ribs in the world off...
...Ernest Hemingway, Damon Runyon, Ring Lardner, Norman Mailer and Jack Kerouac, all of whom wrote about sport (and with none of whom I’d dare compare myself for a second), would have agreed....
...The hike I do most often is Franklin Canyon Park, in Beverly Hills, which is not nearly as well known, or as crowded, as Runyon Canyon, and is, in my opinion, far more beautiful....
...He and his schoolboy peers, with their Damon Runyon-esque nicknames of Stavodicendo (“As I was Saying”), Dentino (“Tooth”), Biscottino (“Little Biscuit”) and Pesce (“Fish”), would gladly kill for a pair...
...To quote the American writer Damon Runyon’s famous riff on Ecclesiastes: “The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that’s how the smart money bets.”...
...Each of these women, who have a hugely aspirational lifestyle, makes an excellent advertisement for their label: Getty works from her mid-century mansion perched atop Runyon Canyon Park in the Hollywood...
...After making his debut with the first feature-length portrait of Beat writer William Burroughs, Howard Brookner made only one more documentary and one musical — the Damon Runyon compendium Bloodhounds of...
...First time around, I discerned echoes of Damon Runyon and Irvine Welsh in O’Rowe’s tale....
...of Amadeus starring Rupert Everett, the newly refurbished theatre switches to a sunnier mood with the hugely popular musical set in the New York underworld of gambling dens and gangsters, based on Damon Runyon...
...In spite of its British associations, the term was coined in the US by Damon Runyon....
...confectedness, its hand-me-down dramatis personae and its besetting Allen sin of social Manichaeism, dividing white-collar from blue-collar America as if it were still the two-class nation fabled by Damon Runyon...
...Ernest Hemingway, Damon Runyon, Ring Lardner, Norman Mailer and Jack Kerouac all worked as sports journalists. Hemingway once got $30,000 from Sports Illustrated for a 2,000-word piece on bullfighting....
...In the end, I think Damon Runyon probably summed up the situation best when he wrote, in a 1945 column: “Wearing seersucker was causing much confusion amongst my friends....
...Runyon Canyon is a peculiar place....
...Then two “Harvards” (in Damon Runyon’s undying phrase), Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, will start competing for the White House. Anti-elitism doesn’t exactly seem very potent....
...In the Damon Runyon story Blood Pressure, a narrator with doctor’s orders to lead a low-stress lifestyle is dragged along on an escapade of ever increasing scariness by a hellraiser called Rusty Charley....
...Damon Runyon, the great chronicler of the seamier side of Prohibition-era America, immortalised Titanic in the Guys and Dolls character Sky Masterson – when Titanic bet, the “sky’s the limit.”...
...accent-distribution is fine (American for Romans, Anglo-Saxon brogues for the Brits), except when sabotaged by English actor Mark Strong’s stateside twang – truly awful, as if culled from a Teach Yourself Damon Runyon...
...They are rudely interrupted by bailiffs sent to seize the production’s assets, including costumes that, in the hard-boiled words of Damon Runyon, contained insufficient fabric “to make a pad for a crutch...
...Lane’s Nathan Detroit milked every ounce of yuks from Burrow’s Damon Runyon-inspired script; here, Oliver Platt’s Nathan, with his bulldog mug, sets off titters rather than guffaws....
...They followed Damon Runyon’s dictum: “The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that’s the way to bet it.” While the rest of us got fatter, athletes went the other way....
...www.taipei-101.com.tw 2 Sears Tower Run-Up or ‘Go Vertical Chicago’ Dubbed the world’s longest indoor stair climb, this race sees frantic limbs ascend the tallest building in north America, in aid of the Damon Runyon...
...Damon Runyon adapted Ecclesiastes: “The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that’s the way to bet.” Big oil companies may be an exception to that....
...As the New York newspaperman and writer Damon Runyon said: “The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that’s the way to bet it.”...
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