Word: racketeering
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...venal. Dr. Terwilliker (the sublimely snide Hans Conried) is a musical megalomaniac who wants every child in the world to learn his Happy Fingers piano technique. Bart's mother Henrietta (Mary Healy) is hypnotized by the bad Doctor into becoming "second in charge of the whole Happy Fingers racket." And the putative hero, the music-loving plumber August Zabladowski (Peter Lind Hayes, Healy's frequent co-star and, for 58 years, her husband), is a complacent fellow who takes ages to take sides with Bart against...
...have a lot of confidence in my racket skills, in my racket ability,” Broadbent said. “I feel like I was limiting myself by just playing a very straightforward, down-the-line game instead of hitting a lot of crosscourts and opening the court...
...throwing my racket at balls,” Whitman said. “I was running so hard and I was trying to beat him the way I know I should play squash, and then in the second half of the second game and the third game, I had to resort to just chasing balls because I wasn’t beating him. I just said to myself, ‘If you’re going to beat me, you’re going to have to be here...
Chiou displayed excellent movement as he tracked down every angle and denied many would-be winners. He put the ball back in play over and over again, and it was ultimately Spracklin who lost his cool, dropped his racket, screamed in frustration and crumbled...
...Schwartz’s voice rings through the house, David C. Marshall ’07 forces himself out of his comfortable position and walks downstairs; he can’t hear a word through the racket. Elizabeth S. Thrall ’05 sits quietly at a desk, a cell phone cradled in her ear; Russell M. Anello ’04 is upstairs making his calls...