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After a few more shows the cast may have settled on lines and cues which will undoubtedly affect individual performances. As things are now, David Odell is perfect as Berenger, the stoop-shouldered milksop supreme who stands alone against the herd. He is just the right amount of pot-bellied and high voiced; he shuffles without shame and is steeped in the divine oblivion of the truly noble and the godawful stupid...
...foyer. "Well, I never," Betty tells her roomie, who shrewdly asks: "Sure you're O.K. in the breath department?" Cut to the next Saturday night farewell scene. Betty proffers her hand to Tom, who ardently sweeps it away and darned near crushes her right there on the stoop...
There are people who say that Harvard should not stoop to commercial levels. That is a bit unrealistic and pretentious. How much money, for example, did Harvard pocket from the Dartmouth game? Funds from athletic contests go back into the University, though not into the athletic program...
...fruit and vegetable prices this year. Pressured by labor unions, the Government last January reduced the inflow of low-wage Mexican braceros who work in U.S. fields and orchards. Thus farmers had to hire domestic field hands, who demand higher wages and are reluctant to do such backbreaking "stoop labor...
...Stoop to Target. A falconer never "tosses" his peregrine, like an eagle or goshawk, directly at escaping game. The bird "waits on" aloft, circling patiently 300 ft. to 400 ft. above its master. A grouse or pheasant flushes from a meadow; a flight of ducks or geese goes past. The peregrine noses into his classic "stoop"-a dive to target so fast that a peregrine once outdove a plane whose pilot thought he would have some fun making a pass at a flock of ducks...