Word: buckram
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...acting, too, is generally skillful, but occasionally overdone. Edward Zang's cynical Scandal is always restrained yet his open disdain for the slithery lawyer Buckram (Bernard Wurger) is still as funny as anything in the show. Wurger himself smoothly handles a three minute conversation from a blackhatted Puritan lawyer to a shyly drunk self-acknowledged stud. Gerald McGonagill as the addled astrologer Foresight, when calm, is also entertaining...
...will take a fairly "posh" word-fancier to pay $47.50 for the economy edition. Prices for buckram and India paper scrape the empyrean. Once, the Webster's Unabridged had the advantage of cheapness over the O.E.D., but now it can vaunt nothing but its relative portability...