Word: cashiering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...excitement is pervasive. When Washington lifted the restrictions on travel to Cuba in March, Havana news boys hawking the stodgy daily Granma gleefully shouted, "The Yankees are coming!" At one store, the cashier closed her till when two Americans walked in and then escorted them to a storage area. She poured some glasses of piña, a local pineapple liqueur, and raised a toast: "Bienvenidos, felicidades...
...copies of her last paycheck and cashed them all; an East Coast bank was taken for a total of $25,000 when someone cashed copies of a check at 13 different branches; a Washington, D.C., man drove away with a $10,000 Cadillac bought with a copy of a cashier's check...
Howard Prince (Woody Allen), A bumbling, inept creature who works as a cashier, is approached by Alfred Miller (Michael Murphy), an old school friend and television script writer who has been blacklisted by the networks. Unable to find employment or have his works accepted for production, Miller asks Prince to serve as a "front" for him. Under Prince's name, Miller's excellent scripts are submitted and readily accepted by the same people who refuse to deal with Miller because they consider him a Communist sympathizer. Soon Prince, now skimming ten per cent profit, begins to front for two other...
...Here are eight characters in search of a dialectic, survivors of the new politics, the new morality, living on the ragged fringes of the old order, wondering why things have not come right. One runs an experimental school, another (zestily and engagingly played by Miou-Miou) is a supermarket cashier who deliberately undercharges her customers. This is a good, fertile field for comedy, but Tanner plows it under with self-seriousness and congenital melancholy...
Witch-Hunters. Allen plays a politically innocent but street-shrewd cashier in a bar and grill, whose old high school friend (Michael Murphy) is a blacklisted TV writer suddenly in need of someone to sign his scripts for him, cash his checks and show up at rehearsals pretending he wrote the thing. The friend is gifted, the network execs are pleased, and Allen (who takes a percentage for his services) soon finds himself prospering and enjoying his demi-celebrity. But, of course, a tweed jacket and a book-lined pad do not an author make. The Front's best...