Word: put-upon
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...remains a better than fair chance that these were the second thoughts of an ex-con embarrassed by his own candor. Leadbelly might have found this movie more to his liking, which is part of the problem. The screenplay puts Huddie into situations where he seems to have no choice but to kill. He emerges as a man innocent, put-upon and perennially puzzled by the cruel vicissitudes of life, who would just like to get on with his singin' and his ramblin...
...foreign exchange movements. Among other measures, Italian travelers, who are already allowed to take only $555 out of the country, henceforth must deposit half of that amount with the government 90 days ahead of any trip. That could make for a crowded summer in Italy, with citizens too put-upon to travel and foreigners rushing in to take advantage of the cheaper lira...
...Good Man, Charlie Brown. Poor put-upon Charlie Brown, along with his high-flying dog, underpaid psychiatrist and blanket-carrying buddy, makes his appearance in a fast-paced, well-acted production at Winthrop House. In the Winthrop House Junior Common Room, with performances Thursday and Friday at 8 p.m. and Saturday...
Sykes himself, the reader comes to feel, is just the sort of decent, humane, gentlemanly, put-upon hero-victim of Waugh's fiction. Waugh is the kind of absurd caricature, impossible in real life, who people these books. So the biography reads strangely like one of Waugh's own novels, with the same absurd dialogue, incredible anecdotes, and moments of high pathos...
...first wife Lillian Hellman's play The Little Foxes for the screen in 1941. His best-known creation, Bella Gross, drawn from The Bronx immigrant neighborhoods where he grew up, appeared in innumerable cartoons and New Yorker stories and remains the model for an enduring comic genre: the put-upon Jewish girl who is forever hounded by her mother to get out and "catch a nice boy, a doctah...