Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...best lines were about herself. "They used to shoot Shirley Temple through gauze. They ought to shoot me through linoleum," she said, while making up for a movie late in her career. Jezebel was the image she reveled in, and when a friend reminded her that Jezebel was thrown to the dogs, Tallulah replied: "Yes, but first she rode with kings and princes...
...will label him forever as "antagonistic" or "a troublemaker." Yet another may be the victim of mistaken identity, sued for nonpayment of a bill run up by another person with the same name. The suit will be duly noted in his file, but not the fact that it was thrown out of court...
...exactly does a prep school education mean in terms of activities and performance at Harvard? To compare preppies and pubbies (public school graduates) we can use the exhaustive data of the Harvard Student Body Center. The data is slightly misleading because "elite" public schools such as Newton High are thrown in with the other public schools. Boston area public schools like Newton receive the same preferential treatment as prep schools. This tends to reduce the statistical gap between pubbies and preppies...
...thrown-back heads aswim In the grand, kept appointments...
...fragmented, sketchy way that Schisgal has written it, Jimmy Shine is like a book in which the text has been thrown away and the footnotes published. If it has any style, it might be called urban picaresque. In his Greenwich .Village flat. Jimmy (Dustin Hoffman) stumbles through episodes from his past, present and fantasy lives. Several of the scenes, and Hoffman's part itself, recall his film role as a social dropout in The Graduate. Though the audience never sees him painting, Jimmy is an abstractionist and a dud at it. He is a glutton for humiliation...