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...Look at the way those crowds act," he said last week. "They all want to touch Hoppy. The women want to kiss him and the men want to hug him. They hold up their little babies to him . . . their own flesh & blood. What do those babies know of Hoppy? . . . Nothing ... but the men & women want Hoppy to see those kids. Crowds never pull at Hoppy or try to tear his clothes. If they start pushing, I just say, 'Now kids ... be good kids'-I call them all kids, grown-ups and all-and they settle down." After...
...that it usually sounded like prose, and its sobering moral sent the audience stumping out of the theater on its knees, pricing bad bargains out of the corner of its eyes. Fry's audiences prance out into the welcoming night, their eyes peeled for a pretty girl to hug or a fellow being to clap on the shoulder...
...prefer parabolas or pictures in the air. A young girl, instead of saying that she dislikes a suitor, says, "Humphrey's a winter in my head." And the suitor, seeing the kind of girl he's up against, does not say straight out that he wants to hug her because she's so pretty he can't help it; instead he says...
...fumes because his wife no longer understands him. In their own subconscious reactions to the family tensions, the girls go off on rocky tangents: Marjorie into a vapid affair with a college boy, Sally into a dash to New York after her father shocks her with an ardent hug...
...street, and there is a doorway, corner or tree within a step or two, take shelter there. Turn your back to the light and hug the building, to avoid falling masonry or flying glass...