Word: cheeked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Seesawing between tongue-in-cheek and cheek-in-tongue, Purlie Victorious says remarkably little about its theme, integration. Unacceptable as real Negroes, the play's characters live a fantasy life that Playwright Davis presents as gorged with self-pity and filled with a lust for revenge over past wrongs. Under the surface laughter lies chauvinism: "I find, in being black, a thing of beauty ... a native land in every Negro face!" Substitute the word white, and any playwright who wrote it would be howled down as a racist...
...mend a fence allegedly destroyed by the Redcoats in 1778, Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Selwyn Lloyd forwarded a check for $18 to the rector of Philadelphia's St. Peter's Episcopal Church. In response to the Rev. Joseph Koci Jr.'s tongue-in-cheek demand for some $760,000 in damages and compound interest, Lloyd legalistically pointed out that since Revolutionary War treaty conventions exempted Britain from further financial responsibility toward her unruly erstwhile American colonies, the St. Pe ter's claim should properly be addressed to "the federal government of the United...
...Lisa cornered Premier Khrushchev for an unenlightening sidewalk chat that was trumpeted as "the only private interview the Russian leader granted during the Vienna stay." Televiewers used to seeing Lisa in her soapy serials blinked as she flung her arms around the rotund Russian, planted a kiss on his cheek and purred: "Nikita Serge-evich, I followed you to Vienna. Now, when will you let me come to Russia?" Replied the startled Khrushchev: "You are welcome there, and if you come, bring your President with...
...young man. He has recently been examined by a Soviet doctor, who prescribed some pills for his asthma that are doing him lots of good. These pills, of course, are made in the U.S. The last time I saw my boy, he had a deep wound on his right cheek. He told me it happened while he was cleaning his gun, but I don't believe it.* He has put on lots of weight lately, but this is the result of the medicine he's taking." Then Mother Guevara set off on the road again; at Tucuman...
...they represent on the show. Scruggs and Flatt are the country's leading practitioners of a particularly corny style of country music known as "bluegrass." And, thanks in large measure to the efforts of the twanging pair, bluegrass is enjoying such a boom that it has now moved cheek by jowl with cool jazz into big city supper clubs...