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...strike meeting. The house is infiltrated with agents provocateurs, carefully drilled by Mark Mirsky to keep up a running fire of grumbles, taunts, and shouts, and to bring the audience into the play by putting the play almost into their laps; it is still an exciting moment when the slob sitting next to you in the leather jacket turns out to be a major character...
...Here, Slob." Something about the way Shelley speaks-a profession of diffidence, a perfection of timing-suggests that everyone in the audience shares his feeling. And as simply as that, Shelley puts Mister Kelly's Chicago nightclub or Mr. Sullivan's fans in his pocket...
...this little slot which is the most ominous item in the whole damn plane. It's a little, innocent-looking white bag. There are instructions on the back in three different languages, French, Italian and Hebrew. And all they're saying, freely translated, is Tn here, slob. In here...
Waiting for R. & H. "I was a big slob," says Pat of her days at San José State. Translated by a friend, this means that she was a nonconformist Nisei. "Pat and I ran around with Caucasians," says the friend. The strained social relations resulted in many heartaches, and when the hurt was deep enough, Pat became deeply Japanese. Once when a boy she was fond of threw her over, Pat sliced off the ponytail hairdo that has since become her trademark. "I'm shorn of my pride anyway," she said, "so I cut my hair." Her parents...
...Alcatraz. To come full circle, Backus first had to get out of taut Kentucky Military Institute outside Louisville -"an Alcatraz with tuition," where his best pal was "Cadet Slob" Victor Mature. "I predict you'll wind up in the gutter," said the commandant...