Word: gyp
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Italy, as in other Mediterranean countries, the sacred and the profane exist side by side. There is nothing like a good shrine, for example, to attract a raggle-taggle of sausage vendors, post card hawkers, fortune tellers, pickpockets, shooting-gallery barkers and common gyp artists - all waiting to peel the pilgrims of their lire. And if the shrine honors a particularly popular saint, the traffic in counterfeit relics is brisk...
...look as proprietors required customers to wear coats and ties. Says one cabaret owner: "We give a buck's worth of booze for a buck. And no strolling, lonely chicks. Once you start letting that happen, you are in for trouble." Today, the Square has no strippers, no gyp joints, lots of good clean gaslit...
...Trinity (dogs were barred). He is generally a public school product on scholarship; traditionalists find him distressingly "professional," the sort of lad who runs an ad agency or nightclub on the side. But today's Cantab still savors yesterday's delights, even to the services of a "gyp," who wakes him in the morning, makes his bed and calls...
While Nome Burns. When they finally get inside, audiences see a three-hour spectacle-roughly two-thirds movie and one-third stage show-that is anything but just another overpromoted metropolitan gyp. The customers are paying for spectacorn, and the Music Hall stage is equipped to give it to them 144 ft. wide and 67 ft. deep. The organ, with 375 stop tablets, can sound like everything from a Chinese gong to a glockenspiel, and vibrates so profoundly that it probably shows up on seismographs in the Soviet Union. The fixed lighting system, with a 4,3O5-key control board...
...short, Brimingham does not know of what he talks. His book is inaccurate, incomplete, and boring. It's a gyp. Don't buy it, and tell your friends not to, either...