Word: shiftlessness
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...shiftless cheat with toplofty schemes, Widmark sets out to get control of London wrestling. He crosses up several minor characters and every major one, including his girl (Gene Tierney). Then he crosses himself up. Duped by Widmark, his partner (Wrestler Stanislaus Zbyszko) dies after an agonizingly filmed grudge fight with Wrestler Mike Mazurki. The dead man's avenging son sets the whale city's underworld on Widmark's heels in an overlong, anticlimactic chase...
...Immigrant. The Puerto Rican migrant is neither Puerto Rico's scum, nor its ignorant, nor its shiftless, as he is often pictured. The average immigrant is better educated (six years of school) than the island's average, Columbia found, and almost all of them left jobs in Puerto Rico. Nor is he a peasant. Most come from the island's two biggest cities, San Juan and Ponce...
Come Back, Little Sheba (by William Inge; produced by the Theatre Guild) tells of a couple, married for 20 years, who should never have married at all. Doc had gotten Lola into trouble; afterwards the baby died, and the sexy, good-natured, empty-headed girl turned into a shiftless housewife, her mind on men, her thoughts in the past. Doc wound up not a doctor, but a chiropractor, and (until Alcoholics Anonymous took over) a drunk. His career blighted, his emotions blunted, he half sleepwalks through life. Then, discovering that their college-girl boarder is turning, like Lola, into...
Aubrey struck one of his contemporaries as "shiftless . . . roving . . . magotie-headed, and sometimes little better than crazed." Yet his collection of yarns and records is today one of Oxford University's most priceless possessions. Anthony Powell's new biography of Aubrey (the first written in more than a century) shows why. He may not have been a great scholar, but like his contemporary, Sam Pepys, he had a lively...
Witch Sinkanda shows up, Timothy is literally led to Hell. By day she's just one of shiftless Mr. Farr's many daughters, but at night she's up to all sorts of fearful business. She can slip in through a keyhole, hex the unwary and fly through the night air. When Timothy throws his Bible in the fireplace and burns the house down while two of its occupants are asleep, it looks like an accident, but Sinkanda knows better. She and Tim have an affair that is both earthy and unearthly. Together they fly to Hell...