Word: cleans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spin-off from Gillespie, but it offered not so much as a toot. No sax, no horn, no clarinet. Instead there was a clean, nearly transparent sound made by piano, vibraharp, bass and drum...
...spite of all this, at Tachai housework is the stated reason for the unequal work-point system. Women have to make breakfast and clean the house, so they can't start work as early. When we asked what would happen if a man did the housework and started late, people laughed--it just wouldn't happen. And when we asked why women don't get work points for doing housework, people said we weren't distinguishing properly between activity for individuals and activity for the collective, and besides, true equality won't be possible until communism grows out of socialism...
Bruce got his first big break on the Arthur Godfrey Talent Scout show doing standard impersonations. He immediately became a popular young talent because his humor was clean. Anyone could get laughs with toilet jokes; Lenny didn't have to resort to filth. But as his reputation grew, Lenny relied less on prepared bits and began talking to the audience in a sort of stream of conscience. The routines loosened up, too, becoming more frank, explosive, and hard-hitting. The first of this new genre of skits was "Religions...
...campaign tour! I'm the same age as Mr. Ford, and I can't believe that he still wears the same dated political garment worn during our college years. It's embarrassing, too, that he asked the nation in another outmoded, unscientific piece of advice to clean our plates, and then spent thousands on a dumb campaign. Especially bad, too, was his exhorting the American people to give blanket support to the Republicans. He should have devoted that time and energy to our pressing domestic problems and let the Republican Party donate that sum to a good...
...crux of the plot, Papa Peppino (Eli Wallach) is seething with suppressed virility because Mama Rosa (Sada Thompson) has denied him the full use of the matrimonial bed for some four months. Furthermore, she does not wave to him from the balcony or lay out his clean shirts and underwear in the morning. Peppino is gripped by the delusion that his wife is having an affair with a family friend, Luigi (Ron Holgate), but he is only a platonic admirer. The real culprit? Are you ready? A plate of macaroni alla siciliana. Three plates, to be exact. Peppino gobbled them...