Word: hustler
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From the customer's point of view, it is unfortunate that she does not want two of Scott, an actor of range and brilliance both on stage (The Merchant of Venice, Desire Under the Elms] and screen (The Hustler, Dr. Strangelove). In Wife, he rises above all the plane foolishness to present a perfect caricature of the square-jawed joe on the Air Force recruiting poster. Curtis and Lisi do well to look competent in his company. And some congratulations are due Director Norman Panama, who keeps this airy nothing whooshing along so briskly that audiences may fail...
Anchoring the halfback line is Chris Nielsen, a hustler billed as Amherst's most spectacular performer. Behind him Amherst uses a three-back defense similar to that installed by Harvard Coach Bruce Munro this year...
...myself," Welthy Honsinger Fisher once wrote, "I am a fair organizer and a bit of a hustler." And so at the age of 72, she went to work training Indians to teach their illiterate countrymen to read and write Hindi. That was 13 years ago. Now 85, "Lady Literacy," as she is known in the Indian press, is still a bit of a hustler, and the Literacy Village near Lucknow is training 450 teachers a year...
...ghetto negroes a kind of status he had never known in Michigan. He wore blue or shiny grey zoot suits, burned his long red hair straight by a process called "conking", peddled reefers and dope, and slept with a white woman. Later in Harlem his reputation as a hustler grew. He played and then worked the numbers racket, pimped for male and female prostitutes, sold and took dope in increasing amounts. Back in Cambridge, he organized and led a gang of burglars who worked out of an apartment in Harvard Square until he was caught and sentenced to ten years...
...onetime boxer from Manhattan's Lower East Side who, after some years as a Warner Bros, scriptwriter, turned to making his own movies "about things I knew as a kid," such as Body and Soul, 1949's Oscar-winning All the King's Men and The Hustler; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...