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...movie: he is bitter and cool with his eyes, his hands, his whole body. And in the role of Jim Dunn, the filmmaker who follows the others into the john for a fix, Roscoe Browne conveys insecurity and fear with stilted mannerisms and gauche use of hip slang. The four musicians (Freddie Redd, Piano; Jackie McLean, alto sax; Michael Mattos, bass; Larry Ritchie, drums) play hard-driving, original jazz of the Charlie Parker variety and are believable addicts as well...
Died. El Brendel, 73, cinecomedian born in Philadelphia to Irish and German parents but famed in the early '30s for his bogus Swedish accent, which made "yumpin' yimminy" slang of the day in dozens of yuicy Hollywood roles; of a heart attack; in Hollywood...
...medium height with a graying crewcut, Pettigrew could easily pass for a junior executive--that is, until he opens his mouth. He speaks in slang, spiced with psychological and sociological jargon. (Someone is "scared as shatters;" de facto segregation is the "functional equivalent" of legal segregation.) His Southern drawl, clipped short after 12 years in the North, can be turned on and off at will, but generally a distinct trace of it clings to his words...
...Dynasty. More often than not in recent years, News-Press editorials have championed Storke's own unpredictable, irascible opinions. When California's controversial School Superintendent Max Rafferty was attacking the Dictionary of American Slang, the NewsPress castigated Rafferty roundly, only to reverse its stand overnight after Storke was shown a list of dirty words from the book. When the John Birch Society moved into Santa Barbara, it roused no visible opposition from the News-Press-until the Birchers had the temerity to attack Storke's close friend Earl Warren. That move provoked an angry series of News...
...vast and steadily growing international legion of Georgette Heyer addicts, everything is as clear as Madeira. She is resorting again to the elegant Regency slang in which she has indefatigably chronicled the goings on of blooded Britons in the age when old King George III was too dotty to rule outright and his son, the Prince Regent, had not yet acceded to the title as George IV. What the butler means, obviously, is that his Lordship, while putting away a lot of the stuff, has been seldom if ever drunk...