Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...real scene-stealers are the supporting characters. Dan Strickland as the Duke is a walking cartoon of the stereotypical stiff-upper-lip Englishman (there a even a number called "Stiff Upper Lip"): he slinks around the stage in an unhealthy slouch, his face frozen in a mournful sneer. Another cartoon character with a face to match is Jansen, a Revenue Officers (Timothy Wallace), who rushes in and out pursuing those clever bootleggers, the scowl across his bulldog J. Edgar Hoover jowls growing deeper each time he's outwitted...
...lobby of the Loeb is festooned with those streamers and with blinking lights in honor of the theater's summer season of "four American plays." And what could be more American than a George and Ira Gershwin musical about upper-class bootlegging during Prohibition? Admittedly Oh, Kay! has a book co-authored by one of the enemy--P.G. Wodehouse--but the score should more than make up for it, with such all-American numbers as "Clap Yo' Hands," "Someone To Watch Over Me," "Maybe," and "Do, Do, Do." It was a smash hit in 1926. The Loeb's version...
Because of their fears, millions of Americans are arming themselves. "We're getting a lot of nice upper-class couples who are buying pistols," says James Bell Jr., vice president of Bell's Gun and Sport Inc. in Franklin Park, Ill. "They're even getting his-and-her guns." About 40% of Bell's clientele are female?young working women as well as elderly widows. Other weapons favored by frightened women: the old-fashioned hatpin, a tear-gas capsule, a can of oven cleaner (which contains...
...Room? $325. To spend an evening with Summer Bartholomew, Miss U.S.A.? $1,000. To be able to jog around in a beat-up pair of sneakers once owned by Basketball Star Julius Erving? $201. These and other market values were set at what one TV critic described as "an upper-middle-class version of Let's Make a Deal," a nine-day fund-raising auction held onscreen by New York's public television station WNET. While some 500 celebrities acted as auctioneers, WNET viewers phoned in bids on donated goods and services ranging from Warren Beatty...
...physical passion to "a blaze of ecstasy." But Millay, who had the same effect on dozens of men, was soon off for Europe. Wilson had to share his farewell embrace on a day bed with another admirer, John Peale Bishop, "I [holding] her lower half and John her upper-with a polite exchange of pleasantries as to which had the better share...