Word: ragging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gone are the days when small chil dren played contentedly with featureless rag dolls. Today's vogue is for realism, and toymakers now turn out dolls that can walk, talk, cry and even wet. When Frank Caplan, general manager of Creative Playthings, Inc., spotted a French doll called Petit Frere at Nürnberg's doll fair last March, he jumped at the opportunity to buy up distribution rights for the U.S. Renamed "Little Brother," the doll has a sweet angelic face, is, in fact, modeled after a Verrocchio Renaissance cherub in the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence...
...this maudlin bundle of bathos is Sandy Dennis. She draws laughs from tears. An accident-prone waif who bruises an eye, bangs a toe and burns a finger, she runs to the audience to be comforted. She flutters and stutters, and sentences spill out of her mouth like rag dolls losing their stuffing. By now, though, this little-girl-lost act is beginning to cloy, and Sandy Dennis is in danger of losing her acting momentum in mannerisms...
They live in crude, sandbagged underground bunkers where often the only light comes from an improvised candle with a rag as a wick. There are no connecting trenches; the leathernecks, some of them raw teenagers, must move at a run from bunker to bunker. Where once a crude French fortress stood, not a single building or even a tent breaks the bleak horizon. Often the only signs of life are a horde of bold rats and a few cats. "The men think they keep the rats down," grumbled one officer. "I suspect they share the garbage...
...this, Douglas always adds a touch of spice. A deft, breezy interviewer, he pumps a starlet about her rumored romance or quizzes the Rolling Stones about rag-mop hairdos. On another occasion, he startled Guest Hubert Humphrey by casually commenting that "the President says you can make a speech as easily as you take a breath." The Vice President muttered, "Did the President say that?" After a long pause he added: "Then it's true...
Edmund Dantes Urick) grew up in Maiden, Mass., where he and three older brothers formed a singing team called, at first, the Urick Brothers. They entertained World War II troops in Boston, and by 1955 had become America's top vocal combo. Such hits as Rag Mop, Sentimental Me and The Naughty Lady of Shady Lane sold 25 million records (despite the titles), and the brothers were well on their way to their first million dollars. But in every other respect, recalls Ed, "it was a very unrewarding, uncreative life. At 30, I found everything stagnant and saw nothing...