In the upper echelons, only The Lego Movie (55%) and Divergent (52.3%), and 22 Jump Street (58%) – franchise-openers and comedies never being the greatest travellers – come close to being as Yank-centric as Clint's film.
The great man had addressed him as "Yank" and so I wished to identify him.
In 1969, as an undergraduate, he became the first African-American to perform in a leading role on the state school's main stage, as Yank in "The Hairy Ape" by Eugene O'Neill.
We pile into the rental car and make a stop for critical supplies like bubble gum and blueberry bagels at Lira's Supermarket, which a bronze plaque notes was once a Pony Express stop known as Yank's Station.
There is always a tinge of sadness when any footballer leaves his boyhood club, not least at a time in the Premier League when young English players aren't so much nurtured gently to maturity as yanked squealing into the light and then hurled beneath the wheels of the machine at the first downward wrench of the gears.
That man is Frank B. Adams, known the world over as "Yank" Adams, at one time and even now the world's only finger billiardist who can make all the apparently impossible shots on the table without the aid of a cue.
"Touch" doesn't so much pull on your heartstrings as yank them with both hands, but Sutherland is so wonderful as Martin that I was willing to forgive that tendency.
PAGE 14 For Yanks, as Bad as It Gets The Red Sox pounded the Yankees, 17-1, at Yankee Stadium.
NEW YORK, NOV. 4 In what will be his last game as a Yankee, Hideki Matsui drives in six runs as the Yanks win their 27th World Series.
Rolling Stone writer Christian Hoard summarized the record and the mixed reviews simply as "DeLonge yanks heartstrings with so-so results" and saw the atmospheric elements as excessive.
