Word: nugget
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...structure of "Right You Are" follows a simple formula. In the first scene Pirandello's mouthpiece, Laudisi, tosses out a philosophical nugget: You can't know the truth about anyone. The other characters are dubious. The proof follows: Two strangers give lengthy testimony about each other, which aside from being extremely improbably, is contradictory. This throws everyone into a dither, except, of course, Laudisi, who goes around baiting the rest of the east and generally being offensive...
...vest-pocket chart which lists the calories in popular foods. The demand for the chart was so heavy (total: 87,596) that the News bannered the series on Page One. By last week, the Fat Boy had spread to 77 daily newspapers ranging from the North Bay (Ont.) Nugget (circ. 10,217) to the New York Journal-American (circ. 724,729) The Journal gave Elmer eight-column headlines on Page One, appointed its fattest reporter, 243-lb. Syd Livingston, to provide local color stories. (He refused to go on the diet himself.) Promotion Manager Ed Templin of the Lexington...
...night gamblers at Las Vegas' Golden Nugget heard the same rumble, over the click of chuck-a-luck cages, and looked up. "Must be an A-bomb," he remarked, and turned back to the dice table...
There are some fine scenes of the Harvard campus and Cape Cod is this movie and it is a shining example of how good a low budget picture can be. This hasn't been at the Nugget yet as don't miss...
After dark, diamonds lost some of their charms. The women lived freely with the men, changing partners frequently. One girl of 20, called Penicilina, devoted herself exclusively to the oldest profession. Famed through the Gran Sabana, she wore five or six diamond rings, gold nugget necklaces and bracelets. Rum flowed over from Brazil at $30 a bottle. Men got drunk and gambled away $3,000 a night. But even the roughest observed the code: there were no robberies...