Word: craps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...going to react," says Actor Anthony Franciosa, a friend. "Sometimes he tries to provoke me into an argument. Other times he's incredibly gentle. Or, sometimes, when I say to him, 'Norman, how are you?' he'll say, 'Cut the crap; you don't really mean that...
...must congratulate you for "The Era of Non-B." It's time our noses were turned up at the crap in our bookstores...
Greenwillow (music and lyrics by Frank Loesser; book by Lesser Samuels and Mr. Loesser; based on B. J. Chute's novel) takes the composer of Guys and Dolls for a long ride-from a tough Manhattan of floating crap games to a quaint folk region of scampering rustics. An off-in-the-distance village, Greenwillow is also an out-of-the-past one and might conceivably be Rip Van Winkle country; its doings, at least, could put people to sleep for 20 years. It offers a woodsy, folksy, pixie world where people hear a devil's call...
...more businesslike tone, e.g., a speech on U.S. defense by Massachusetts' Presidential Candidate Jack Kennedy. Here and there, a speaker attacked the "Warren" Supreme Court: Mississippi's James Eastland scornfully labeled the Supreme Court decision upholding the constitutionality of the 1957 Civil Rights Act as "crap" (though a thoughtful clerk recorded it as "claptrap"). Arkansas' William Fulbright, time-tested segregationist, took the occasion to lambaste President Eisenhower for turning the U.S. into "a 20th century Babylon, headless and heartless, a big fat target of the ably led Communist world and the clamoring, poverty-ridden new states...
...Mary Ahern, 37, a well-shampooed alumna of Boston's Girls Latin School and Radcliffe, finds writers for shows, advises them and usually edits their scripts, has long aided and edited Lenny Bernstein. Says she amiably of R.S.A.'s relaxed working methods: "A floating crap game." ¶ David Oppenheim, 37, a tall, solemn, black-thatched clarinetist and onetime head of the masterworks division at Columbia Records, serves as a general scout for new shows and talent. He has been a Saudek associate less than a year, quips that he welcomed the chance "to get away from music...