Word: suckers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...performance is very pleasant. (As I'm a sucker for spirituals, even for fake-cheery ones. I found the Negro's (Leonard Easter's) "Feelin'Good" more than pleasant.) All the parts are essentially ham turns, and they're played until every last ounce of fat is caught. The choreography is, appropriately, elbow-swinging and gymnastic (except for a nice, modest ballet by Debbie Coleman). The new Leverett House Old Library Theater, with its small scale and wood panelling, is quite cozy--one enters through the stage, which is attractively cluttered with Jack Hanick's set: bright, upended trapezoid canvases...
...Turner for help with his less affluent client. Turner, who likes to hand out $100 bills to indigent passersby, was only too happy to comply. Turner, in a bright blue suit with a 2-in. by 4-in. American flag pin in his lapel, explained: "I'm a sucker for causes...
...conviction that such changes can be made; his early interests, in fact, were far from psychology. Born in Susquehanna, Pa., in 1904, he was the elder son of Grace Burrhus, an amateur musician who sang at weddings and funerals, and William Skinner, a lawyer who was "a sucker for book salesmen." In his "Sketch for an Autobiography," Skinner describes his early life as "warm and stable." He lived in the same house until he went to college. He was never physically punished by his father and only once by his mother?when she washed out his mouth with soap...
...problem is customers' attitude. "They've had a preconceived notion," complains a top official of a major manufacturer, "that all the panty-hose manufacturers are dishonest-that they might as well buy a cheap pair as a more expensive pair. The consumer has become a sucker for a low price." There is another snag. Many women, retailers say, buy a panty-hose size that accommodates their lithe self-image rather than one that approximates reality...
...book is one of those narrative toothpick trees that the '20s musicals utilized only to festoon with girls and dances. The central figure is a near-millionaire Bible publisher, whom Jack Gilford plays with gullible charm. Gilford is a kind of platonic sucker who has been gilding the palms of three avaricious flappers without any amorous return on his investment. He doesn't want his wife (Keeler) to find out about it, and he orders his lawyer (Bobby Van) to buy and bargain his way out of the mess. It all adds up to a kind of microminiature...