Word: fooling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bessie," Linda Hopkins disclaims, "and I wouldn't try to fool you." Well, yes and no. Like Bessie Smith, Hopkins came up in the South, with a mind bent on singing. And like the 1920s blues singer, who was an imposing 200-pounder, Hopkins, 50, is a handsome ample woman. Rustling her voluminous, diaphanous blue caftan, she shimmies across the stage of Manhattan's Ambassador Theater in a rhythmic roll that more than matches her vocal size. Me and Bessie, Hopkins' nearly one-woman musical revue (she is backed up by two dancers), recalls the history...
...Didn't fool him last night..." "Sure am glad that was last night...
WHISPERING DIRTY WORDS in a girl's ear is one of the fool-proof secrets for driving a chick crazy offered by that cultural curiousity, How To Pick Up Girls. And plenty of good advice, too--if we judge by the audience of the London Madhouse Stunt Show last Sunday night--an audience that was reduced to a malleable jelly of shrieking girls by what seemed to be one endless train of obscenities, phallic jokes and frontal nudity...
...Fool's Choice. Galbraith sugarcoats his familiar plea for controls with an engaging and eminently readable economic history that speeds through no fewer than 27 centuries in 300 pages. From 700 B.C. to A.D. 1975, says Galbraith, national leaders have wrestled ineptly with the problems of economic management-in recent years by trying to make "a fool's choice" between inflation and high employment. No such choice is necessary, says Galbraith, with an obvious eye on the 1976 U.S. elections: Government could stimulate the economy as much as might be necessary, without causing inflation, if only the public...
...William Shatner vanishes into several disguises per show in order to sanitize the notorious district of the title. Doug McClure plays a gambling-house owner, amusingly exasperated by his friend's slippery ways. The show is exuberantly staged and every present or former owner of a mail-order fool-your-friends makeup kit ought to enjoy...