Word: mops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spent more than a year turning the Fords' Grosse Pointe Farms estate into a Versailles-like setting for the familiar blueblood-boiling beat of Bandleader Meyer Davis. And not even an hours-long downpour-which soaked through the turquoise-colored roof of the vast pavilion and kept a mop-and-bucket brigade of 70 swabbing through the night -could douse the enthusiasm of the stag line, as Anne's photograph album of her coming-out will forever record...
...Patterson was elected to his dead father's job, led the fight to mop up the mob in Phenix City. More important, he became a hero to many an Alabama voter by putting the N.A.A.C.P. out of business in the state for refusing to disclose membership lists. He fought Negro boycotts of stores in Tuskegee and of buses in Montgomery...
...hard to see what the Consumers' Union, cosponsor of the affair, got out of it. Nobody talked about the best kind of mop dryer or anything like that
...Adam Parry's Ajax. Parry looks neither powerful nor noble; his great speech on illimitable time is absurd, and one suspects that intransigeance is the least of his problems. So also with Teucer (James Rooney) and the Messenger (John van Sickle), who is not helped by the mop he wears around his chin; and the wily Odysseus (Ray Sokolov) is no subtle man at all, just a ham. They are all hams when they want to emote something; it is much as if they conceived the play in terms of a bad translation...
...Fiumicino Airport. Because Ava Gardner once called him a dirty name. Paparazzo Tazio Secchiaroli vengefully hid for hours in a cardboard box on a Cinecitta movie lot, finally got what he came for: an unflattering shot of Ava in an old bath towel, hair wet and stringy as a mop...