Word: lot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SWEET CHARITY. Shirley MacLaine is sometimes cute, sometimes arch in this overblown musical about a dance-hall hostess searching for love. A lot of money and a lot of energy have been expended on this superproduction, and most of both has gone to waste...
...cannot believe that in their hearts they are truly for the poor and the underprivileged; the concern they show appears to be just a rung in the ladder to power. I further object to a feature on Ethel Kennedy because she should be left alone. She has had a lot of tragedy in her life, and baring it all to the public will not help her. She is a public personality, but leave her in peace...
...proclaimed prophecy that after his departure chaos would ensue. Then he dismissed Gaullist Jacques Foccart as Secretary-General for African Affairs. Knowledgeable Frenchmen were delighted: Foccart's African designation was in fact a façade for his job as boss of the Gaullist "Barbouzes," a thuggish lot of secret police and informers...
Bulletproof glass and riot shutters guard the main entrance. A tunnel enables employees to enter the building from a parking lot, and all must carry cards to gain admittance. Even so, last week a militant black leader managed to slip in and appear in the city room to berate an editor. Simultaneously, the editor's phone rang. It was a proud guard, calling to report that he had stopped two men trying to get by. They turned out to be FBI agents...
...angry tones, 'Johnny! When I talk, you listen! Is that clear?' What is the child to do? Sometimes blacks feel they are supposed to do something, but just what isn't clear-shuffle their feet, perhaps. Sometimes blacks find that if you move around a lot and say 'Yassa, boss,' it seems to make some white people less hostile...