Word: plucker
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...wrenching his pelvis Elvis-fashion. Most often he sounds like Grand Ole Opry cornball recorded at 33⅓ r.p.m. played at 78. Backing up the young (25) Glasgow-born skiffler are a second guitarist, a two-beat drummer and the best showman of the combo, a red-goateed bass plucker named Mickey Ashman, who twirls his big fiddle, tops the act by rolling on the floor with...
...road to the Century began one night in 1950 when Yolaine, a senior at the University of Miami, arrived at the Sacred Cow, a Manhattan restaurant of which Sol was part owner. His mother, Mrs. Sophie Lenefsky, is an accomplished chicken plucker who has feathered her nest over the years by hard work in a chicken market. After World War II, she presented Sol and his sister with $13,000 that she had saved, to buy the restaurant. On the night Yolaine came to dine there, she was introduced to Sol. Two months later when he went to visit...
...Saroyanesque romance-a drama of strange but real little folk lost in the depths of the big city. The characters are a grifter, a cafe entertainer, a drunken Pulitzer Prize playwright, and a thief, all thrown together by accident. Doug Fairbanks, Jr. as the ex-bellhop sucker-plucker and Rita Hayworth as the girl who graduated from the gutter give convincing performances in the romantic leads. And Thomas Mitchell does as fine a job with his role of the universal friend in need as Eddie Dowling did in the almost identical role in "Time of Your Life." The plot revolves...