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...Brooks' delirious comedy The Producers, two shysters raise far more backing than necessary, then mount the worst musical play they can find, hoping to abscond after a disastrous opening (and closing) night with their pockets full of unspent production money. For their sure-fire disaster, they chose a project called Springtime for Hitler. Had the script of The Great Waltz been available, it might have served just as well...
...last quarter, despite the fact that Harvard was pushing people around (or so the paper said the next day), was spent watching the Harvard drum bearers trying to abscond with the Cornell cheerleaders. The cheerleaders were willing and the crowd roared. Trevor watched with interest as the band ogled the cheerleaders. "Why do they do it?" he asked, this time to no one in particular "Because this is Harvard," his roommate answered with disgust...
...time and place are not 16th century Messina, but turn-of-the-century America. In both periods, wars can be won with small loss and loves pursued with grand stratagems. Courtship and cozening can unfold while the players dance the maxixe. Antoon and Choreographer Donald Saddler abscond with reality so neatly that one is willing to believe in the characters...
...males, according to Price, do not suffer from brain damage, epilepsy, or any recognized psychosis such as schizophrenia. They are psychopaths, also called sociopaths-"unstable and immature, without feeling or remorse, unable to construct adequate personal relationships, showing a tendency to abscond from institutions and committing apparently motiveless crimes, mostly against property...
...early plays of George Bernard Shaw. That is what his daughter is doing, and she has already fallen in love with a chauffeur. Depravity surrounds Ford. The clerk of his sporting-goods concern has lifted half a million dollars from the firm, and makes a scoundrelly proposition. He will abscond with the loot unless Ford gives him his daughter's hand and a general managership. The swag is in two matching bags. When a third identical bag containing the downstairs maid's lingerie is shuffled on to the scene, the plot boils over in mistaken identities and furious...