Word: pasteboard
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...Young Savages. The plot is straight from Hollywood's pasteboard jungle, but the documentary scenes of punks and finks roaming through Manhattan's tenement-glutted, garbage-strewn juvenile jungle carry the authority of the headlines...
Like a man given a golden door knob, Viereck attempted to build a mansion to surround his toy. Unhappily, his intellectual, poetic, and dramatic resources sufficed only for a pasteboard imitation of a mansion, a flimsy substitute for a play. That line was one of only four Good Things about a wasted evening...
...Italian gang stabbing a blind Puerto Rican boy to death, or the grim subway beating of Assistant D.A. Burt Lancaster, or the switchblade threats on his pretty wife. These scenes were excitingly photographed on location in Manhattan's juvenile jungle, but the plot is make-believe from the pasteboard jungle of Hollywood...
When patches of empty seats begin to fester in the orchestra of a long-run Broadway hit, a producer will do anything that does not break the Lindbergh law to fill his seats. The commonest hookcrook is the "twofer," a pasteboard promising to sell the bearer two tickets for the price of one more or less. Press gangs range from Westchester to Harlem (where a growing middle class provides some of Broadway's steadiest customers) to drop twofer bait at insurance offices, union halls, colleges, doctors' waiting rooms and similar waterholes...
They threw down old rugs or corrugated pasteboard to cover the dirt floors. For heat they had potbellied stoves, some made from old oil drums. Their light came mainly from kerosene lamps flickering dismally behind tent flaps. They carried water by the bucket from Owner Towles's house. A one-hole outhouse served the entire community...