Word: sackings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bore, gathered enough information to keep them busy evaluating for several months. Closed-circuit TV zeroed in on the recruits has already given, them many of the answers they want. At first the shelter seemed a weary sailor's paradise, and the men caught up on all the sack time lost at boot camp, sleeping in shifts. When fatigue gave way to restlessness, they turned to poker (played for matchsticks, since the Navy officially bans gambling). But this palled after a week, conversation was exhausted-and morale sagged. The scene was reminiscent of wartime movies in which submariners...
...Bridge; who knows why (but don't get us wrong; we love Hollywood). At the Fenway (KE 6-0610),we would revert to our former mode of discourse to note that The Markis as dull as a film about a leching Humbert-type can be. Finally, at the Sack (CO 7-9030), Rosalind Russell and Alec Guinness reek of Absence de Gout (perfume and toilet water respectively) in A Majority...
Something About a Soldier, by Ernest Kinoy, proved fitfully amusing, fitfully poignant, and fitfully provocative. It scouts out the sad-sack destiny of Jacob Epp, a private who looks ''like a bloodshot owl and talks like an IBM computer that has majored in sociology. Sal Mineo makes an appealing Epp, and Epp's captain, Kevin McCarthy, wins a Silver Star for acting sensitivity...
...care what color they are," grumbled one housewife. "They aren't civilized like us, are they? They kill their chickens by cutting off their 'eads and shaking them up and down in a sack. The children don't want to see that." Another housewife complained of cooking odors, "All that garlic or whatever it is," so unlike smells the English feel at home with, like boiled cabbage. Said a third: "They spit...
...visitor leaves Olde England behind and steps into the Newe. From Wrentham, Mass., the museum brought a 17th century "keeping room," with furniture owned by Peregrine White, who was born on the Mayflower. Beyond that room is an 18th century staircase with its handy "valuables bag"-a homespun linen sack into which valuables could be thrown and, in case of fire, hurled out the window. Next come two connecting rooms from a house in Lee, N.H.-a kitchen-living room and a "borning" or "measles" room with a tiny cradle. From then on, the Americans began to indulge themselves...