Word: entertainer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tough-minded not to entertain the probability that in both instances the mere man is a medium for manifesting the power of Satan...
Seoul offers 1,500 registered kisaeng, most of them young and pretty. The girls are licensed, as an official directive specifies, to "entertain her guest in his hotel room." Among licensing requirements: a rigid twice-a-month phys ical checkup. (Kisaeng pick up their cards, oddly enough, in Seoul's Y.M.C.A.) Once approved the girls trip off to work in one of Seoul's twelve "licensed restaurants," don their time-honored chogori (loose blouses) and chima (flowing skirts) and get to work...
After an honorable discharge from the Navy following World War II, Preston was recruited for a Special Services tour in Europe to entertain troops with his pool skills. " 'Bout the only good will Ah created was for myself," he recalls...
...University, the Commission should take it over." I fear you have, and not for the first time, juxtaposed two statements of mine in such a way as to convey a false impression. I do indeed feel that if 1400 students sign a petition, then the appropriate University office should entertain it and respond to it, and if that office will not do so, or if the appropriate office cannot be determined, the Commission should accept the petition. It does not, however, follow automatically that the Commission will "take over" the case in the sense of holding hearings, issuing opinions...
There is a scene in Shoot the Piano Player: Two thugs have kidnapped the hero's son. They have him in a car, and are called upon to entertain him. One thug claims to have a valuable possession. To back up the claim he say, "If this is not true, may my mother drop dead on the spot." Cut to the mother, dropping dead on the spot. This is early Truffaut, mixing genres eagerly, producing a film steeped in two classically American traditions -- slapstick and gangsters, with a third, sentiment mixed with melancholy that is curiously...