Word: tucks
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Actors who have been good all along -- Tuck Milligan as a sharecropper who uses the Civil War to settle some personal scores and later as a roving union organizer, Gregory Itzin as two characters who use the law to pervert justice -- are suddenly much better. Actresses who had not made much of an impression now excel: Lillian Garrett-Groag as a Indian captive, part wife and part slave; Katherine Hiler as two hillbilly girls and, especially, Jeanne Paulsen as the woman whose world was destroyed by mining and who finds salvation in spontaneous political courage...
Every 19 seconds a car is stolen. Every day about 70 automobiles are carjacked. But it is not statistics that make people tuck the Mace into the glove compartment, or change their route home from work, or discover the virtues of carpooling, or prefer the risk of a ticket to stopping at red lights in a bad part of town. It is the stories, not the statistics, that breed fear...
...Brooks, as always, must show up, which is rather unfortunate because he is about as funny as lung cancer. He plays Rabbi Tuckman, a Friar Tuck stand-in who acts as master of circumcision with the slogan "Circumcision: Half-off". (Ouch!) His strong (only?) point is gratuitous penis humor, used so that the kids in the audience, who should be seeing "Snow White," would get a chuckle. Some people, such as Brooks, should not direct and act at the same time--nor, for that matter, should we let them do either separately...
...hope is that the Coast Guard will be overwhelmed, allowing perhaps a handful of boats to make it through. If Petit-Trou's vessel is not among the fortunate few, the village, like Francois Nassau, will surely have outstripped its endurance. Perhaps then it will simply curl up, tuck an arm beneath its head, and quietly...
...time for everyone to come to grips with the fact that Burke and Berkery will never again don the crimson and black. Never again will Burke pester a player into submission and a turnover. Never again will Burkery tuck her stick under her arm in her favorite, undefendable move, sprint to the hole with opponents on each side and flip the ball into...