Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...similarity ends. John is thin, George is plump. John is bold and expansive, George cautious and conservative. John is gregarious and full of quips, George shy and sobersided. John stands and talks; George sits and listens. Plain and unpretentious George, in his drab black suit, sedate tie and stiff collar, could easily be taken for a retired motorman dressed up for Sunday...
...Picasso, who declined to send anything to the show, might have conveyed more with a quiet little sketch of either the chicken or the rat. Yet Paris gallerygoers, bored stiff with disciples of past masters, were welcoming Lorjou's rebellion last week by beating a path to his big, brash canvas...
...profoundly Shavian. In the first, the college-bred daughter understands and forgives her slum-born mother for having made a living out of brothels. In the second, she denounces her mother for making a fortune out of them. As a notorious woman's daughter, Vivie is naturally stiff-necked and stern in judgment; as a bad woman who has tried to be a good mother, Kitty Warren is naturally sentimental and defensive. Their personal relationship-beyond all considerations of economics or ethics-is irreconcilable. Few Broadway playwrights now in full bloom would be able or willing to write...
...comparing the average comic strip to Li'l Abner is like comparing an ordinary cocktail to a dipperful of Capp's own Kickapoo Joy Juice, a liquor of such stupefying potency that the hardiest citizens of Dogpatch, after the first burning sip, rise into the air, stiff as frozen codfish. Capp tries to give his readers not only a daily belly laugh, satirical Cappian comment on politics, sex, law enforcement, the housing situation and human rapacity, but surrealistic gobbets of action, mystery, horror and adventure as well...
Playing in a stiff wind and without the services of last spring's star, injured Sam Butler, the ruggers put up a good fight against an M.I.T. team that outplayed the Crimson most of the game...