Word: sharked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...here. I ordered three hot and sour and two shark fin. You got it exactly backward. The moo shu pork came without any pancakes and where are the lichee nuts...
Greed is the theme of the play, greed so compelling as to raise it to an obsessive lust for money. In this reincarnation, the setting has become San Francisco in the 1890s. Volpone has become Foxwell J. Sly, played with shark's-tooth gusto by George C. Scott. Rich and childless. Sly feigns grave illness in order to arouse the hopes of avaricious, fawning and wealthy townsfolk who hope to become his heir...
...club fighter-THE ITALIAN STALLION, as he styles himself on the bathrobe he wears into the seedy boxing rings he works in his native Philadelphia. His style is crude, and he is aging none too gracefully. To supplement his boxing earnings he serves as muscle for a loan shark...
...book itself seems to be a compendium of South Sea cliches containing, in addition to the mandatory paean to the Polynesian way of life, a tidal wave, a tropical storm and a run-in with a poisonous stonefish-a great relief to readers who had been expecting a shark. One thing Thorkild proves, though: there is no tenure in paradise...
Married. Robert Shaw, 48, novelist (The Hiding Place), playwright (The Man in the Glass Booth) and actor of stage and screen, perhaps best known for his roistering portrayal of Quint, the professional shark killer in Jaws; and Virginia Jansen, 37, his secretary; he for the third time, she for the first; in Hamilton, Bermuda...