Word: canting
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house larry (clothing-store cant)-a customer who is not buying, just looking...
mayvin (Yiddish clothing-store cant)-a know-it-all customer...
...been some relaxation of the puritanical morality of the revolution: the heroine errs, but is forgiven at the fade. And there is even a mild suggestion that people in Russia sometimes get tired of the canned ideas they are continually fed-the party's production slogans and political cant ("Fascist beasts") come in for some sly kidding. So do the professional women, the emancipated amazons of Marxist society. But one Cranes does not make a summer...
...stagecraft, Actress Bancroft worked hard with a variety of teachers, still submits to the rigorous and introspective training of the Actors' Studio. What sets Anne apart from other Method actors is the stubborn perseverance with which she has kept her quick and sensitive emotions unfettered by theory and cant. "I've never liked to read," says she. "But I don't cover up my ignorance ; if I admit it, people will teach me. On the third TV show I ever did, Rod Steiger told me about Stanislavsky. I said, 'Who's he?' Rod gave...
...cousin Jacques in whom she saw only a romantic image, although he actually carried on a series of sordid liaisons, finally married for money and died of alcoholism at 46. There was her friend Zaza who overtaxed herself trying to be Simone's fellow freedom fighter against parental cant; when she died of meningitis, "I believed that I had paid for my own freedom with her death." And then there was Stépha. pert. Polish and feminine, who taught Simone to look at love more realistically and also to look in the mirror. Simone was a slob...