Word: hardboiledness
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As a young man awash in a sea of hardboiled, frowzy, careerist "women," I would like to meet someone with the grace and loveliness of Lady Diana.
As the chartered airliners arrived from Key West, the weary refugees streamed off with an empty look in their eyes. They carried all the belongings they owned, stuffed in plastic bags and pillowcases. Some shied away from the military trucks and soldiers at first; they had been told back home...
Set in the last days of a campaign for the Senate, Lee Kalcheim's comedy has the stock political characters: a smooth-talking campaign manager with infinitely expandable ethics; a cynical speechwriter; a pretty, blonde volunteer; a hardboiled, right-wing Congressman; and the idiot senatorial candidate. Add to that...
Alexander seemed a good catch for many reasons. His maternal grandfather, Alexander Koryzis, was Premier of Greece when the Nazis invaded in 1941. His father is not only a self-made millionaire in the buccaneer Onassis mold, but also a former professor of law at the Athens Graduate School of...
The Front Page is a melodramatic comedy or a comic melodra by Charles MacArthur and Ben Hecht, about a hardboiled but purposeless reporter from Chicago who sets out to save an innocent man convicted of murder, or something. It's a fine play, although more or less reliable sources say...