Word: kidded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...appears to me to be a classic case of indoctrination," he says. "We sent people to the Air Force Academy and to West Point, and yet they capitulated and signed the Stockholm peace petition and all the rest. I just don't know how a 19-year-old kid could have been expected to handle it any better...
...mistreated," he contends, "you aren't going to lick their boots." Besides, he argues, the excuse that she was young and sheltered rings false. "It's hard to believe that, when she was out living with some man. Who's she trying to kid...
Trevor Nunn, who directed the stage production, moves it in front of the cameras with all the care of a fussy kid transporting a dollhouse. He treats his actors similarly. Peter Eyre as Tesman, the scholarly husband Hedda holds in contempt; Timothy West as Brack, a local magistrate of flexible morality; Patrick Stewart as Lovborg, a raucous genius and former lover of Hedda's; and Jennie Linden as a woman who idolizes him and stirs Hedda's jealousy-all are like windup toys that can be counted on to repeat the same tricks over and over. Nunn...
Died. Joseph R. ("Yellow Kid") Weil, 100, confidence man extraordinary and regular jailhouse boarder; in Chicago. Weil donned gentleman's garb and artfully flimflammed hundreds of marks, including horseplayers who fell for his phony wiretap schemes for beating the odds, lovers of exotic pets who bought his talking dogs only to learn that they had been "stricken" with laryngitis, and one detective who was finessed into buying $30,000 in "stock" from convicted Swindler Weil while escorting him to prison. The secret of his success? "Each of my victims had larceny in his heart," explained the master of hanky...
...Thunderbird Kid And His Girl...