Word: riffraff
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...stage movement works best in small, humorous scenes like the early one of the itching, scratching, sneezing, retching freeloaders in Shen Te's tobacco store, and in the finale when a congregation of riffraff salutes the gods with raised mop as the "illustrious ones" fly away on a winch-raised cloud...
...rough world, not just on the picket lines but in the interminable ideological warfare among the power addicts on the outer fringe of communoid politics. This kind of politics seems as dead today as Joe Hill. The reader will wonder how, among his chosen society-the failed saints, moral riffraff, ignorant zealots, sex addicts and refugees from bourgeois society who people his book-Rexroth almost alone seems to have survived as his own man, still spouting verse and invective, and still in splendid spiritual health...
...address. A main auto artery between Washington and New York, Route 40 from the Delaware River south to Baltimore is a gaudy neon wilderness of eateries, sleeperies, roadside marts and drive-ins. An average 87,500 motorists travel that 48-mile stretch daily and, inevitably, many of them are riffraff of a sort no innkeeper would welcome. But in fact, the restaurant and motel signs that proclaim "We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone" are addressed exclusively to Negroes -and time and again Route 40, by turning away African diplomats, has earned ill will...
...Double (Paramount). Danny Kaye is one of a precious clutch of performers who can still appear alone on a bare stage and hold audiences from riffraff to royalty rapt for hours. Yet Hollywood insists on ballooning his Pied Piper image with Panavision, or multiple-tracking his slap-happy sounds, or painting simple comedy in exotic new colors. His recent films, including this one, have added enough gimmicks and gewgaws to throttle Danny's vintage gitgatgittle. What was once A-OK is now beginning to seem just Oh, Kaye...
...when the Loyalists lost, mother and son threw themselves on his untender mercies. When they arrived in France, he met them in a crowd of other refugees. Ignoring the boy, the father took one look at his wife and snapped, "You turn up with all this riffraff Hate the World. Still, Tanguy was happy in the little house outside Vichy where they settled, and for a while he felt like "an ordinary boy again." But the parents quarreled, and his mother decided to move on. The police arrested the woman and child on vague political charges. "Who denounced...