Word: slugfest
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...PUSSYCAT. Bill Manhoff fills every round with comic impact in this verbal slugfest. pitting a fiery, sexy shrew. Diana Sands, against a self-righteous bookstore clerk, Alan Alda...
...PUSSYCAT. Bill Manhoff fills every round with comic impact in this verbal slugfest, pitting a fiery, sexy shrew, Diana Sands, against a self-righteous bookstore clerk, Alan Alda...
...Pussycat, by Bill Manhoff. A verbal slugfest between a man and a woman is the contemporary form of the mating dance. The man may not want to go to bed with the girl, as the hero of this play doesn't, but he realizes that it may be the only way to get her to shut up. Pussycat is as old as the Punch-and-Judy show and as new as Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, and the evening is filled with good, healthy, vulgar, neurotic laughter...
...that South Africa's hapless blacks and coloreds have to express their dismay at apartheid is to boo vigorously the all-white home teams at international sports contests. In 1955 the unpatriotic favoritism of nonwhites at a rugby game with Great Britain at Bloemfontein brought about a racial slugfest that resulted in a ten-year ban on black and colored spectators in that city; five years ago, a similar clash forced officials to halt a South Africa-Britain soccer match in Johannesburg's Rand Stadium...
...Slugfest. Last April Yorty again sallied forth against the will of party leaders, surprised everyone by finishing close enough to Poulson in a nine-candidate election for mayor to force last week's runoff. Opposed by leaders of both parties and by all four major Los Angeles dailies. Yorty fought his special kind of bare-knuckled campaign. He cried out against the "entrenched downtown interests," vowed to fire the whole police commission if elected, and questioned darkly how Poulson could afford a cattle spread in Oregon worth, or so Yorty claimed, a cool...