Word: scows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...birth was about 95% Irish, about 5% Italian. (Today, the ratio in that neighborhood is almost precisely reversed.) His father, Gerard De Sapio, came to the U.S. at the age of ten from Avellino, some 30 miles inland from Naples. Recalls Gerard: "We were on a flat-bottomed scow, maybe like the Staten Island ferry, if you know what I mean, but I thought it was the greatest ship in the world. I used to go up on the deck and look at the sea and dream we were all going to be rich." Carmine's mother, Marietta...
...many a night Zorba heads for the home of Bouboulina, a blowzy, scow-bottomed "old siren," once the darling of admirals and of fleets. When his boss refuses to make love to a young, appetizing widow, Zorba warns him: "Every man has his folly, but the greatest folly of all ... is not to have one." The boss takes Zorba's advice to heart and the young widow to bed. Meanwhile, Zorba never misses a chance to ask such puzzlers as: What is a woman? Who made the stars? Why do men die? The boss's widow is murdered...
...Forester's fantastic novel, The African Queen, would have its readers believe that an old reprobate and a prim church organist can shoot a thousand miles of river rapids in a motorized scow and blow up a 100-ton gunboat. Director John Huston and stars Hepburn and Bogart obviously didn't think so. In their African Queen, they played thrills for thrills, and the rest for laughs. The result is unusual, half-exciting, half-amusing, and always entertaining...
...Month of Sundays," a new musical based on a comedy by Victor Wolfson, has to do with the machinations of an amiable old excursion boat skipper, who goes to rather bizarre lengths to keep his condemned ferry from being converted into a garbage scow. After two hours with his passengers one can be pardoned for wondering why he doesn't just turn the damn thing over to the Sanitation Department...