Word: zip
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kennedy's treat-'em-rough school of police enforcement may cause "New York's Battle of the Streets" to become even grimmer than it is at present: total war between zip-gun toters and club-swinging police, with the innocent citizen in the middle of it all. The man in blue should not just be a faceless, gun-slinging symbol of an aloof society; antagonism can only beget hate and make the accomplishment of police duties that much more difficult...
Backing up the President, Treasury Secretary Robert B. Anderson and Federal Reserve Board Chairman William McChesney Martin agreed in testimony before Capitol Hill's Joint Economic Committee that 1) the U.S. economy is basically healthy and can be expected to recover its zip without drastic Government medication, and 2) strong hypodermics, such as a deficit-producing tax cut, might do harm by stimulating inflation fever. Inflation, warned Chairman Martin, will be "one of the most crucial problems we have to face over the next couple of years." Said Anderson: "I can conceive of situations where tax reductions might appropriately...
...business becomes, at a bound, a brilliant song-and-dance man. His triumph, to be sure, stems from something less than singing, and seldom exactly dancing; it grows from a leg-and-larynx zest, a mating of sales-talk incantation and engaging panhandle stride. And something of this solo zip is mass-produced in the festive small-town spin of Onna White's dances. Prettily singing the show's over-pretty romantic tunes, Barbara Cook provides a contrastingly quiet charm. The Music Man is not pure cream, only nice, fresh half-and-half. But it particularly catches...
...only useful purpose of Pal Joey is to serve as a vehicle for songs like "Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered," "I Could Write a Book," and "Zip" and for Frank Sinatra. Sinatra can give life even to the remarkedly poor lines he is given and he does, of course, sing very well. He is quite effective as a night-club singer who substitutes his conquests over women for a financially prosperous existence. When Sinatra tells an unwilling chorus girl, "If you knew what you were throwing away, you'd cut your throat," hundreds of middle-age matrons nod silent agreement...
...only other well-cast major role in the movie is that of Rita Hayworth, who plays an exstripper "Vanessa the Undresser" who has married into the position of society queen. Rita is equally skillful maintaining aristocratic social distance or singing "Zip"--"The way to my heart is unzipped again." Pretty as she is, however, Rita has grown too old to attract men's minds...