Word: cons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Franklin in Paris is a title in search of a show. This Ben (Robert Preston) is no American Renaissance man but a Broadway showman in knee britches who treats his inventions-the Franklin stove, the lightning rod, the rocking chair-as enticing props to con the yokels of Louis XVI's court. The court is ostensibly Versailles, but the real milieu is the chandelier-lit ballroom of half a hundred interchangeable musicals in which girls in flowing period gowns go swirling into musical-comedy oblivion...
...desperate deed. Negro Writer Ralph Ellison's coolly reasoned essays are a timely rebuttal of this extravagant thesis. In clean, brisk, unapocalyptic prose, Ellison denies that "unrelieved suffering is the only 'real' Negro experience, and that the true Negro writer must be ferocious. . . . What an easy con-game for ambitious, publicity-hungry Negroes this stance of 'militancy' has become...
Michigan's unusual statute sets no standard for judging which cons are rich enough to pay as they stay; the law says that an inmate who "appears" solvent enough is subject to being charged the daily $4 to $9 that it costs the state to keep him in jail. Few actually get into this fix; the state has collected only $30,000 from paying prisoners in the past nine years. But the possibilities are clear from the record of Lifer Roman Olezniczak (murder, bank robbery), the state's top paying con. While earning $5 a month...
...WOMAN. A girl who looks simian becomes a meal ticket for the con man who exploits her misfortune in this ferociously funny Italian comedy about the beastliness of Homo sapiens...
...greatest difficulty in the play stems from the character of Con Melody. Partly because his pretensions are humorous, they must be portrayed as a somewhat deliberate pose. Melody, for all his perseverance, is putting it on. But deliberate pretensions cannot be ripped off with the same agonizing slowness as more unconscious fantasies. Thus the denouement in Poet is an obvious one, and it takes place in a disappointingly short time...