Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Barbara Stanwyck) who owns the show takes a liking to the lunk and pays him to sing pretty for the people. He doesn't sing very pretty, but there are compensations-when he starts singing he stops acting. Anyway, just before the film ends Elvis presents a fairly stiff upper lip, pays off the mortgage, gets the girl. "Git closuh," he instructs her bluntly. "Ah give awff body heat." To doubt it would doubtless be unkind...
...Riverside Drive penthouse in Manhattan, Johns surrounds himself with art works of his friends, from Marcel Duchamp's Dada gimcracks to Andy Warhol's soup boxes, which he uses in lieu of extra furniture. He is a chess player and keeps a library substantial in such stiff favorite reading as Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus-Logicos Philosophi-cus. Johns also keeps on hand an inexhaustible supply of beer, which, in a way, has crept into his work...
...breaststroke Fowler will get stiff competition from sophomore Bob Corris, whose practice performances have been excellent. Together, they might make the toughest pair in the East in that event...
Last week in Uruguay: - The stock market was reeling from the effect of an unprecedented three-week strike by brokers. They went out when the government announced plans for imposing impossibly stiff regulations on market trade and landholding companies, who must sell off all their property within a year as part of the land-reform program...
...history takes stage center as Bitos actually becomes Robespierre. There are tableaux of the boy being caned by a Jesuit schoolmaster for his stiff-necked pride, of Robespierre as a humorless young parliamentary Stalin outraging the more moderate Mirabeau ("You've taught me a very sad thing, which is that the Revolution could be a bore"), of Robespierre dictating new decrees of death in a last mad spasm of guillotine-hungry power...