Word: drawer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that danger which hits Promises, Promises hard. The plot, taken step for step from the Billy Wilder-I.A.L. Diamond screenplay, must be counted an asset; Simon has certainly contributed a better than respectable quantity of laughs; and the Bacharach-David score is exceptional by any reckoning, absolutely top-drawer by current musical-comedy standards. The problem is that the property works at cross-purposes to the adaption, and the adaptation at cross-purposes to the score. On a piecemeal basis, Promises, Promises can with no exaggeration be called a distinguished musical, while as an entity it becomes a disappointing...
Criminologists wonder just how good an idea it is for Everyman to keep a pistol in the dresser drawer for self-defense. Aside from the moral issue of whether a burglar deserves to be executed for the relatively minor crime of property theft, there is the practical point that if the armed citizen pulls a gun, he is likelier to get shot than is the generally more experienced burglar. Moreover, two-thirds of criminal assaults and three-fourths of homicides result from quarrels among family or friends. U.C.L.A. Psychiatrist Ralph Greenson says: "Guns not only fail to resolve aggression, they...
...three decades has been a first-rank interpreter of Shakespeare and Shaw, co-starring with Dame May Whitty, Katharine Cornell, Judith Anderson and Helen Hayes. What is he doing playing opposite Adam West in Batman? Evans concedes that the TV scripts are sometimes "ridiculous" and the casts hardly top drawer. There are physical hazards, too. In Marrakesh, while filming / Spy, a street urchin stole his arch supports! On the Tarzan set in Mexico, his pants were singed in a fire, and he got cut and bruised clambering up a cliff...
Stanley Hoffmann stared down at his lap, then fingered a nob on his desk drawer. A few minutes later he groped for a paper clip and stuck it between his teeth. Hoffmann was being accommodating, talking about himself, but he wasn't used to it, and he probably didn't enjoy...
...advance notices were not misleading. The production of Patience which opened at Agassiz last night is an uninterrupted delectation and a conclusive bah to those niggards who tell us Patience is not top-drawer Gilbert and Sullivan...