Word: sort
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Billy Wilder, the producer, director, and co-author of the script, probably took some sort of commercial chance when he chose a transvestite setting for his sex spoof. Except for occasional shifting of buttocks, however, the usually queasy Boston audience has little trouble transcending its sidewalk morality-so broad is the funny business, so obvious the references...
Miss Canty is being held in East Cambridge Jail while police sort through about $25,000 of allegedly stolen property removed from her Concord Ave. Apartment. Detectives plan to obtain another search warrant to obtain other goods from the apartment...
Committee Chairman Tom L. Freudenheim '59, reiterated this feeling by pointing out that the first meeting co-ordinator would merely provide the opportunity for such contact. He said that "coercion of any sort is against the Committee's wish...
...trust in human beings. War and revolution have so sapped his faith in the earth itself that he can only sigh skeptically when a cheerful clergyman assures him that healing "always begins with the hands . . . Our Heavenly Father looks after the heart." But Amadeus seeks regeneration of a profounder sort, because he sees deeper and farther than his fellow...
Irresponsibility. For a while, Carl and Joan cling to each other in a sort of unprincipled camaraderie: up to a point, Carl shares her lazy indifference to consequences, her pretty-eyed irresponsibility toward everyone, including oneself. But in the end, he makes his break. Along the way, Author McLaughlin (A Short Wait Between Trains, The Side of the Angels) again and again pierces his story with small but sharply accurate insights-how a man feels when he pointlessly watches a girl on the street, the horribly impersonal service in a funeral parlor almost too antiseptic to admit the image, "dust...