Word: juking
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...Lord Waterlogged, a broad-as-Bevin parody of a Laborite, who "flips arahnd" laboring his "haitches" and belaboring the landed gentry: "The juke knocks 'is tea back and puts the saucer dahn, and 'e says, 'Sid,' 'e says, 'I'd like ter give this spa of yours the flippin' once over!' 'e says. Then ... she says, ''Ear! 'Ear!' she says. She's very fond of all this, this old-fashioned clobber, you know...
There he ran across a couple of old friends. He told them his mother was "resting easy," and ordered the roast beef blue-plate special (70?). The other customers-a couple of farmers, some railroad men in blue jeans-paid little attention. Two people went on playing the juke...
...road company away from its Broadway opening, is still a great show. Harold Rome's music and lyrics, particularly "The Red Ball Express" and "Military Life," and most emphatically "South America Take It Away," have managed to outlast the combined kiss of death of the radio and juke box, while the entire east is only a shade or two below the group which has made "Call Me Mister" the best musical in New York...
...black maria through. Most obvious hole: the rich Widow Fitzgerald appears much too bright to get herself mixed up with Garfield before checking with the Better Business Bureau. Much of the fresh, exciting look about Nobody Lives Forever comes from its underworld sets: the flyblown bars and diners, noisy juke joints and moldy waterfront piers. Most of its convincing punch is furnished by an excellent supporting rogues' gallery, which includes George Coulouris, Walter Brennan and George Tobias...
...Juke finished his fourth drink. His eyes were clearer now and he could talk more distinctly...