Word: fleshpot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...always, Brigitte plays a pouty fleshpot yearning for a man (Henri Vidal) who doesn't yearn back. This unlikely situation is sillier than usual because this time, besides her natural endowments, she has wealth and social position as the daughter of the "Prime Minister" of France. But Vidal, dad's Chief of Foreign Affairs, throws gravel in her face as he takes off in his car to meet his latest mistress...
Technical Assistance. In the fleshpot city of Havana, where gambling has always been one of the more reputable vices, a few casinos were prospering moderately in the early 1950s. Then some U.S. thugs introduced an eight-dice game called razzle-dazzle, so complex that most suckers never even learned the rules before they were fleeced. As resentment over this form of larceny spread among U.S. tourists, President Fulgencio Batista grew worried. In 1955 he decided to look around for U.S. technical assistance. The man who popped up was Meyer Lansky...
Leaving behind his Cuban finca, 25 cats, seven cows, several dogs, one screech owl and the stuffed lion's mouth in which he deposits high-priority letters, Author Ernest ("Papa") Hemingway and wife Mary slippe'd undetected into the canyons of Manhattan, enjoyed some semisecret days of fleshpot scouring without revealing his resting place ("I just want to confuse the hell out of Celebrity Service"), made a special excursion to the Bronx Zoo to converse with its two hippos ("I needed Miss Mary around for the grammar"), slipped off as quietly as he had arrived for a sojourn...