Word: sharked
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...through the roof come July. All Pete needs is $3,000 capital. He is without much enterprise (let it not be forgotten that Michael Sarrazin is not the star of this movie), so Henrietta goes out to get the grubstake. This initially involves doing business with a loan shark. The pork-belly deal is delayed, so the shark sells her contract to a madam, who sells it to a couple of Mafia killers, who sell it to some cattle rustlers. As each new situation becomes increasingly preposterous, laughter is supposed to rise in proportion...
...traditionally proficient and thoroughly professional. The Bertolt Brecht play is a modern classic, and a delight to see if the performance is sufficiently raunchy. Kurt Weill's music and Brecht lyrics give the show its real flavor; "The Ballad of Mack the Knife" is the tastiest number. The Shark bites Wednesday and Thursday at 8 p.m. at the Loeb Drama Center, 64 Brattle St. Wednesday tickets are $4.95, a Thursday seat costs $5.95. Season series tickets are available at the Loeb...
...years to come up with one small work, and the critic sits down and bangs out his review in one night. If there were no artists, there would be no critics--it's a parasitic profession. I'm reminded of those small satellite fish which travel along with a shark or whale, feeding on the scraps of food left behind. Blustering with self-importance, the critic feeds on the scraps of giants, regurgitating on cue an article for publication...
...Kraft, an Administration "enemy" whose home telephone was once tapped, last week wrote of the "spirit of rivalrous competition and self-important narcissism now so rampant in the fourth estate." Managing Editor Howard Simons of the Washington Post, the most tenacious newspaper on the Watergate trail, spoke recently about "shark frenzy"-the urge among some newsmen "to rush in to get a bite of that bleeding body in the water...
...arrests (by unorthodox means) of men wanted for prison terms of seven years and more. Mannucci uses most of his guile and gall to manufacture evidence. But his atavistic instincts are intact when he blackjacks a captured Mafioso senseless, or thrusts a gun under the nose of a loan shark caught...