Word: shucking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Conrad John Schuck and Kay Story make a delightful pair as Daddy Warbucks and Grace, Warbuck's secretary, in the second half of the first act. Shuck's deep voice and stiff manner are a perfect compliment to Story's soft femininity, and although the set design for the Warbucks mansion is a bit much--The Nike of Samothrace looms in one corner, while Picassos, Mattises, Rembrants and the Mona Lisa also make appearances--it does produce a few chuckles from older members of the audience. Rooster Hannigan, played by Laurent Giroux, and his accomplice Lily St. Regent ("like...
...Roland Shuck, deputy director of Tukafurlux, a Dutch-Ukranian joint venture fur company that now shies away from buying the pelts of Russian animals...
...good thing because our mass popular culture is the most influential in the world. But when questions are raised about that industry's irresponsible promotion of certain material, the industry's executives tell us it has no influence. Everyone has to know that is a steaming pile of shuck. At its best, popular art has been part of our ongoing redefinition of American life, moving us to question our prejudices and our political policies, our social fears and the ways in which we live our personal lives...
...because they sit atop some of America's most fertile land-the topsoil, the remains of a prehistoric lake bed, can run 6 ft. deep -- many Cass County farmers say they are ready for change. Most find the welter of farm programs confining and confusing; many would prefer to shuck them altogether. Indeed, some farmers have begun to get out of the farm program voluntarily. Gerald Melvin, a third-generation farmer who works 3,000 acres that produce durum wheat, beans and five other crops, suggests that farmers would gladly accept reduced payments if Washington stopped placing burdensome environmental regulations...
American Tabloid is history as Hellzapoppin, a long slapstick routine careering around a manic premise: What if the fabled American innocence is all shuck and jive? To underscore his thesis, Ellroy uses spurts of unimaginable violence the way other writers deploy commas and periods: "Sal burned a man to death with a blowtorch. The man's wife came home unexpectedly. Sal shoved a gasoline-soaked rag in her mouth and ignited it. He said she died shooting flames like a dragon...