Word: conned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will be the busiest, dizziest sewing bee in European vacation history," announces the introduction to Fielding's new Guide, published last month. In that same hortatory fashion, Fielding fusses over his readers' clothes ("A sport jacket on an adult is considered improper at the leading restaurants"), warns them about con men ("No matter how dazzling the offer, puh-LEEZE don't change any money on the streets") and coaches them through customs ("Name, rank and serial number only...
...plot springs from his search for moral equilibrium. Each of the characters closest to him seems to have found a partial solution. His partner, Blueboy, a shrewd, gamy con man, will play whatever role the whites expect of him with a comic and cynical flourish. His mistress, Kelly Sims, a college-educated chemist, bravely but quixotically banks her hopes for Negro progress on intellect. His eventual wife, Lila, a wise but unlettered country girl, has the "black granite" endurance that was once popularly thought to be the essential quality of the Negro race...
WHITSUNDAY SPECIAL (CBS, 10-11 a.m.). Highlights of Duke Ellington's Sacred Con cert, featuring the timeless Ellington, his orchestra, four vocalists and three choirs. Repeat...
Richard Wellington McLaren likes to tell a story that says a great deal about his main concern as Nixon's chief trustbuster. There was an executive whose firm had been taken over by a con glomerate. Wrote the executive to a friend: "You ask me what it's like to work for a conglomerate? Well, it's just like being a mushroom. First, they keep you in the dark for months. Then they throw dung all over you. Then they...
...black pimp who is as cold and dangerous as a switchblade. His whores saunter in and out between tricks, and the white one loves him. Johnny wants to challenge the Mafia, which is crimping his style, by assembling a "Black Mafia" to rule his own turf. An ex-con father figure who has gone straight (Walter Jones) warns Johnny that he has contracted "Charley fever" -that is, trying to beat the white man at his own game. The fever inevitably proves fatal, and finally the stage is as loaded with corpses as the bloodiest Elizabethan tragedy...