Word: gingering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Luck of Ginger Coffey. Irish he is, and a grand figure of a man indeed. Six feet in his socks and no mush around the middle, mind, for all he's rising 40. The eyes are wild and blue, the face is wide and Irish. The hair is the color of a slightly soiled orangutan, and over the large smile arches an orange mustache such as a man might hang his hat on. The hat, set over at a country angle, is Tyrolean and supports a bright little brush that stands eternally erect. The jacket is tweed and reeks...
Irish, d'y'see, is the word for Ginger Coffey, and at a guess most people put him down as a prosperous Irish squire. Most people, more's the pity, are dead wrong. Behind the mighty mustache hides a terrified tyke. Inside the classy tweeds lives a Mick Micawber who can't keep a job, can't feed his family, can't face the comitragic truth about himself. In his careful and intelligent novel, a bestseller in 1960, and now again in the careful and intelligent script he has written for this film, Author...
Takes two to make a child, whatever its age, and the child called Ginger (Robert Shaw) is created with the collaboration of Ginger's wife (Mary Ure). For 15 years she plays his mother as well as his mate. When he quits job after job because, as he grandly announces, "I'm too good for that sort of thing," she knows he secretly believes he isn't good enough, but she protects his pride and does not tell him he is a coward. When he takes passage for Canada because, as he grandly announces, "Ireland...
Once Royal Crown proved that diet drinks were no fad, the big bottlers pushed diet drinks of their own. Canada Dry President Roy W. Moore Jr. brought to market no fewer than eight diet drinks, from coffee flavor to ginger ale. Coca-Cola launched Tab, and Pepsi-Cola brought out Patio Diet Cola. Pepsi President Donald Kendall recently decided to take advantage of the $30 million spent advertising Pepsi this year, has begun to phase out Patio Diet in favor of a new drink called Diet-Pepsi, which is being promoted with the slogan "Enjoy Pepsi either...
...Alexander, even in the glass and cinder block guest suite on the top floor of Leverett House F Tower, is to walk into another world. You knock; he opens the door. "Professor Alexander?" you say. "Yes," he says, and blinks. "Won't you come in? Will you have some ginger beer?" You try to explain why you have come, but he waves you to a chair, apologizes for having nothing but ginger beer, and asks you won't you have some. Only after you are seated and have at least refused his offer, are you allowed to speak...