Word: stick
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Stick...
...Glynn Turman. Dreaming of fame on the minstrel circuit, he teams up with Charlie Bates, a shady con-mannerist portrayed by Tony Award Winner Ted Ross (The Wiz). The stage is still the white man's domain, however, and Bates, Brown and their fellow black performers must stick to the formula of blackface makeup and plantation humor. They are forced, in vaudeville's looking-glass world, to imitate the white man's parody of blacks...
...volume series entitled, not surprisingly, "Great Books of the 20th Century." Writing to the series' editorial board-including such luminaries as Norman Cousins and Jacques Barzun-Adler asked which modern authors might be worthy of the company of Homer, Galileo and Marx. He added: "I am willing to stick my neck out by nominating the authors and works from which a selection should be made...
...Gerson at a conference in April," Glashow said, "and told him he'd better get on the stick. I said, 'Look, Gerson, this is getting embarassing for you. You'd better find some charmed particles.' Three weeks later he called me up and told me he'd found them...
Onstage she seems small and uncertain, a little girl dressed up. She clutches the microphone to her face ("There you go, baby, here am I"). The mike is a sponge-covered apple on a stick ("Well you left me here so I could sit and cry"). Her lips, stretched wide, quiver so close to its surface that if she were to bring her jaws together she would bite circuitry. Will Eve ("Golly, gee, what have you done to me?") bite the apple? ("Well I guess it doesn't matter any more...