Word: gotta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their roles, and though they never lose spontaneity, they appear to hack around much less. The development of the story, written by Arlene Grimes, Jake Severance, and Mary Carleton, is conventional, but Earle Edgerton's staging shows several imaginative touches. The songs are never really captivating, except for "You Gotta Work for Your Wishes," and "Flowers Are Dancing A Minuet," the theme-song finale which the Children's Theatre has used for its last three shows...
Sterling Hayden, a country-boy from Boone County, Kentucky, is ridden with city dirt. He doesn't care much for the ladies (principally Jean Hagen) but admits a weakness for horses. "Math luck's just gotta change," he observes, but one fears that it never does. As farm boy turned gangster, Hayden is supposed to give a new slant to the gun-slinging mobster--victim of environment, sentimental, lovable. Impossible lines and Hayden's mouthing of them preclude a convincing portrayal...
...gotta be in it to win," the touts cry. Australians get in it by buying tickets from state lottery offices or, in Queensland, from thousands of small agents, barbers, news dealers, tobacconists, and drugstore clerks, whose "Don't Pass Your Luck" signs offer curbside service. In Sydney some superstitious ticket buyers write their names upside down on the application forms. Others enter the lottery office only by exits and leave through entrances. Scores wait under the lottery-office clock until the hour strikes before buying a ticket. One regular buyer steadfastly refuses to enter the lottery office until...
...groups. Its lyrics sound the outcry of the suffering romantic, "I'm a Mississippi bullfrog sitting on a Harlem dump, so many girls I don't know which way to jump." With equal fervor, Rock n Roll sympathizes with the nihilistic element of the Cambridge community, "I gotta Flip Flop n Fly, and I don't care...
...careful, self-conscious diction breaks down, the sidewalk elisions appear. "Either we were gonna get the confidence of the people or perish. I'd been in the business a long time. It was the only one I knew. I figured I'm in so deep I gotta...