Word: underneath
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some lines that Playwright William Gibson wrote into Seesaw while the show was trying out on the road. The middleaged, Midwestern lawyer tells Gittel: "I said [you are] a beautiful girl; I didn't mean skin-deep-there you're a delight. Anyone can see. And underneath is a street brawler. That some can see. But under the street brawler is something as fresh and crazy and timid as a colt." And that, right now, is probably as good a description of Anna Maria Italiano as can be found...
...here's a point to ponder well- With each new wavy Taylor wreath, We wonder if he's going to sell A different product underneath...
...backers are convinced, Senator Symington burns with a longing for the White House every bit as intense as Senator Kennedy's. In everything he ever took up, whether business, politics, tennis, golf or bridge, Stu Symington has been a fierce competitor-keeping his surface unruffled but seething underneath with a wild hatred of defeat. "If Stuart were playing marbles with a six-year-old," says a St. Louis lawyer who has known Symington for many years and admires him intensely, "victory would still be a matter of life or death. He plays everything...
With the Foreign Government Grant application he had folded another green Fulbright application. This he was to mark "Fulbright Travel application" (quadruplicate). It was for money to supplement his Foreign Government grant. Filed underneath these were the sextuplicate Marshall and the triplicate Rhodes...
Shotover's son-in-law Hector is another of Shaw's Chinese-puzzle characters, whose identity opens up like a box to reveal a new one underneath, leaving him a paradox that is never resolved. One of his personae is that of the romantic hero, with a moustache "like a bronze candlestick" and a general air of being a cross between the Prisoner of Zenda and Henry V. Hector is also a boaster and a liar and his wife's lapdog, but he is so totally footling and gormless in Dennis Price's portrayal that his cries of agony...