Word: bagels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Playing a garment-district secretary named Miss Marmelstein who has all the sex appeal of an eight-day-old bagel, Actress Barbra Streisand, 20, is about the only bargain in the Broadway musical I Can Get It for You Wholesale. So having arrived at star status, she felt compelled to utter a few words on her Method that would make Stanislavsky spin. "It has to be a little false to show the truth," she told a New York Post reporter. "Like I used to wear my hair down for a show, and they couldn't see my eyes, they...
Insight & Farce. Bright but not brassy, Gregory's material ranges everywhere, from the possible ejects of President Kennedy's religion ("Four years of bingo") to the Israeli Abomb: "They want to find out if there's anything that will crack open a stale bagel." But the condition of the colored man is his main theme and night after night he plays it with grace...
...even that sort of absurdity is fading. The beats are gone, man, gone. The bongo drums in Denver's Exodus lie unused and uncared-for. In San Francisco, where it all started, even the Co-Existence Bagel Shop has been closed since autumn. And in Chicago, when a newspaper wanted a "typical" picture of two beats in a coffeehouse, reporters had to comb the city for hours before they found two sad, sandaled shades and dragged them to the Oxford to be shot...
...practicing Jewish families before the war. One of Temple Emanuel's most popular members is the Honolulu Advertiser's nightclub columnist, Eddie Sherman, who recently dramatized Hawaiian Jewry by giving a luau (a Hawaiian outdoor dinner) and calling it a Jewau. The menu included such succulencies as bagel breadfruit, pineapple-flavored matzoth balls, and a renamed local wine, Mogen David...
Married. Otto Preminger, 53, bagel-bald Hollywood producerdirector; and Brunette Patricia Hope Bryce, 29, one of the highest-paid U.S. fashion models; he for the third time, she for the second; in Haifa, Israel, where he is filming Leon Uris' Exodus...