'That boy came here last month when I was in Los Angeles for the premiere,' he says of a scrawny five-year-old.
He transformed himself from a scrawny Jersey-ite to a buffed-up, bandana-ed working-class hero for the masses.
She had been married, raised a son to adulthood, worked for years as a private pediatric nurse and lived in her Harlem apartment for decades when a scrawny 9-month-old named Curtis came into her life.
Forget the comparisons, Wally Harper was simply, ineluctably Wally Harper, a child of the rust belt Middle West, growing up in post war America with an oversized talent for music housed in a scrawny body, the kind of gifted young man who makes the best kind of New York sophisticate by recreating himself, and somehow making the life he wanted happen by talent, charm and willpower.
Why go to such lengths for a few scrawny penguin chicks with bulbous, unseeing eyes?
Just as Mr. Shin, "a scrawny, incurious and for the most part friendless child whose one source of certainty was the guards' lectures about redemption through snitching," is not a model prisoner, his is not a model redemption.
He sees shiny aluminum Christmas trees for sale everywhere, but instead he buys a scrawny, sad tree and decorates it with a single ornament.
You're Scout, a lone wanderer with a scrawny old dog, Aesop, for company.
As before, players step into the shoes of Travis Touchdown, a scrawny loser with a penchant for violence.
For dinner on Monday night two men killed a scrawny, half-plucked chicken by dunking it in water boiled on a garbage fire, then hacked it apart with a dull knife and cooked it over an open fire.
