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...fuzz (underworld)-police...
...teenage, 5-ft. 2-in. "dwarf" of this book first saw hard covers years ago in Shulman's The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis. A sort of peach-fuzz Bluebeard. Dobie consumes much of his one-track energy in the chase after females, and his main problem remains that of making himself acceptable to girls with developing measurements. Admits Dobie: "It used to make me pretty jumpy when a girl started getting her bust." Most of the young ladies live next door in a bad real estate buy that happens to be the only flat-roofed house in Dobie...
...carpenter from a square-type place like Galilee . . . who said the cat who really laid it on us all was his Dad ..." Another amateur actor played the role of Christ crucified: "I was framed . . . Maybe that lawyer Judas can swing it. Otherwise I've had it ... The Roman fuzz bugged me all night. They didn't like my sandals and beard...
Around Manhattan's Washington Square early last week, there was hardly a joint that wasn't a drag. Reason: too much fuzz (cops). Just about any coffeehouse-the Gaslight, the Epitome, the International (behind the White Horse, where Dylan Thomas used to drink), any place, in fact, where the espressos are like Rome's and the cats are cool-had a freeze on. The copniks, like, had told the beatniks, like, that reading poetry aloud is entertainment, and to have entertainment a joint's got to have a cabaret license...
Steelworkers and their wives, Lubell found, have sharply noted that price increases follow close behind wage increases. "Everything else goes up and you're no better off," said one worker. "Wage increases are as useless as fuzz on a frog," said another. Instead of higher wages, says Lubell, many steelworkers would prefer "additional fringe benefits, such as expanded hospitalization, paid-up insurance, and-the one demand with the strongest support-a lower retirement age with more generous pensions...