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...Jewish in-laws to get a laugh. Before they put this album out, along with the new collection of their older works, Reiner, Brooks and their 2000 year old man should have remembered the oldest and most famous show biz saying, one even better known than "There's a sucker born every minute...

Author: By Tom Lee, | Title: The Musical Fruit | 1/18/1974 | See Source »

BAKER LIBRARY, Never Give a Sucker An Even Break, The Fatal Glass of Beer, with W.C. Fields...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard | 11/15/1973 | See Source »

...beyond their reach and past their recognition. The fine, wood-panelled dining-hall on Quincy Street cleans the surface of the scholar's conscience with the polish of good manners, decent bearings, and appropriate understatement of his discontent. Clean silver, cool sherbet, slivers of lime and fabric of seer-sucker, ladies and gentlemen slender and adept: they learn to be the managers of their own self-introspection and self-accusation. Should they become intolerably disturbed, someone in the Mental Health Department of the pre-paid medical plan will tell them that their guilt is of neurotic origin and ought...

Author: By Jonathan Kozol, | Title: Harvard's Role In Perpetuation Of Class-Exploitation | 10/31/1973 | See Source »

...Catherine of Russia. King was borne in on a red-draped gold divan by four bare-chested men wearing slave armbands, while Riggs entered in a ricksha pulled by five of the ample girls he refers to as "bosom buddies." He presented Billie Jean with a large Sugar Daddy sucker ("for the biggest sucker in the world"); the stunt had Billie Jean's full cooperation, since it reportedly earned each a fast fat $20,000. King responded by giving Bobby a live baby pig, appropriately named Larimore Hustle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: How King Rained on Riggs' Parade | 10/1/1973 | See Source »

...suggest you play poker everynight that it runs, instead. Of course, you could bring your own blanket and nap in the back seat. Because let me tell you. All that stupid sex and bad rock and roll, those mad scientists, those six star generals, and the two dimensional sucker who's the star of the show are bound to put you out cold. Or they should. A lot of cliches about corruption shot through a candy-coated lens ain't much of a reason for staying awake. Not to my mind...

Author: By Max Blearlens, | Title: Don't Fall for the Hype, Joe | 7/20/1973 | See Source »

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