Word: classics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Roughshod. To be sure, Arthur P. Jacobs is not just any Hollywood producer, either. He is the man who is filming The Story of Doctor Dolittle, Hugh Lofting's wry children's classic about the physician who talks to animals, as a $12 million 20th Century-Fox musical extravaganza, starring Rex Harrison, Samantha Eggar, Tony Newley, and a cast of 1,147 other humans and 1,500 beasts. To play the featured role of Gub-Gub the pig, he will need 40 trained piglets (because they grow out of the part so fast). The fabled two-headed pushmi...
...bulletproof vests. Acting almost entirely on anonymous tips, which they never verified, the squad spent 19 days in round-the-clock raids of more than 300 houses in Negro neighborhoods. They had arrest warrants-but they never once bothered to get search warrants. They acted with such classic disregard for the dictates of the Fourth Amendment that a U.S. Appellate Court has just condemned them for "the most flagrant invasions of privacy ever to come under the scrutiny of a federal court...
...classic image of an English teacher invariably includes his having 'something in the drawer' that he's been reworking for years. 'I know I've got a play in me yet,' the stereotype says, but of course it never comes...
...same, the musty Old Left slogans festooning the hall in classic agitprop type attested to the fact that there has been little dialectical ecumenism among the faithful in recent years...
...other mumps symptoms. Since vaccination, at least 100 of them have been exposed to natural mumps infection either at home or in school, and only two have come down with the disease. By contrast, among the unvaccinated children who were studied for comparison, 61 out of 100 got classic mumps...