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...tells the story of 19-year-old Bernard Chanticleer, son of the curator of pornography at the New York Public Library. In a hurry to achieve manhood in the approved way, young Bernard must choose between the love-sick squarehead who works with him and a sadistic nymphomaniac go-go dancer who doubles as a non-speaking actress in an off-Broadway play. In the end, of course, the right girl wins...

Author: By Glenn A. Padnick, | Title: You're a Big Boy Now | 4/11/1967 | See Source »

...execrably played by Barbara Dana, are about to become parents in name only. Their immediate life plan consists of divorce for themselves, adoption for their unborn child. In intellectual hock to his psychoanalyst, Beau has convinced Barbara that he and she are emotionally unready for parenthood. A hotter squarehead prevails. Hiram Sherman is a proper-minded homosexual, more censorious than Cato the Elder. He has raised Beau since the lad was a 15-year-old pickup in a gay bar, and he is disgusted with Beau's flibbertigibbet irresponsibility. Sherman's performance is an up tick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Flibbertigibberish | 3/11/1966 | See Source »

...color changes than a traffic light. As first written, back in 1936, Anna was a backstreets melodrama in which Playwright Philip Yordan rummaged among some white trash in a small town. The principal characters were poor Poles, and the heroine was described by one playgoer as "a sort of squarehead Camille." When the play, as written, failed to get a Broadway opening, Playwright Yordan remaindered the rights to the American Negro Theater. The white trash became black trash, and caught fire. Anna moved to Broadway, played to packed houses for more than two years (1944-46). But Playwright Yordan, convinced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jan. 26, 1959 | 1/26/1959 | See Source »

Israel calls the German Jew a yecki (roughly: squarehead), laughs at his naiveté. Many of the yecki are physicians (of that great, devoted band of German-Jewish doctors) and they have a hard time adjusting to the land. Many try chicken farming, going about it in that highly scientific Teuton way which makes the Polish and Russian Israelis guffaw. They say that when one yecki found a sick chicken he sent all the way to India for a serum, inoculated every one of his flock. They tell of a yecki with an old dry cow who asked a Polish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISRAEL: The Watchman | 8/16/1948 | See Source »

...stressing "friendship" for Czechoslovakia without proposing measures of succor, was politically thunderstruck. It was obvious that the Czechs & Slovaks may find it good business to get rid of 3,250,000 Sudeten Germans in exchange for a loan of $150,000,000−or about $46 per blond Sudeten squarehead. The startled House could not but suspect that smart Dr. Benes had been secretly tipped off by Mr. Chamberlain beforehand as to how much wiser it might prove financially to yield the Sudetenland rather than fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Millions for Czechoslovakia | 10/10/1938 | See Source »

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