Word: boarder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Momo") Giancana is a top-echelon Chicago mobster who brags that he reads Shakespeare. As the star boarder of the Cook County jail for the past seven months, he has had plenty of time to brush up on the bard-and, no doubt, to reflect on Caesar's fate and other most unkindest cuts. For whatever else he may have done in a long and lucrative career-and he has only twice gone to prison before-Sam at 57 is in durance vile for indulging his red-blooded American right to plead the Fifth Amendment...
They key question of the play is whether to trust Marcel, the boarder they picked off the street months ago, who suddenly asks for money so that he can recover his cello. He is finally given the money, though Dixon, now cynical, is loath to do it. As the group awaits his return, not knowing whether their trust was justified, the suspense builds...
Julie Harris plays a would-be actress who is too unnerved by auditions to try for any parts. Since her rent-controlled Manhattan apartment costs so little, she sublets it and lives off her tiny capitalistic mite. Her latest boarder (Lou Antonio) is a big Hollywood stag hiding out from his studio. He has been afflicted with a bad case of that integrity rash that Hollywood celestials periodically get from banking lots of money...
ILLINOIS has built a handsome native-brick structure to house a Lincoln library and a display of Lincoln manuscripts, both excellent. The stark simplicity of the building was probably dictated less by taste than by the vast cost of its star boarder, a steel-boned, electronic-nerved mechanical Lincoln that stands up, adjusts its coattails, clears its throat and delivers six excerpts from Abe's speeches on liberty with a nasal Midwestern twang...
ILLINOIS has built a handsome native-brick structure to house a Lincoln library and a display of Lincoln manuscripts, both excellent. The stark simplicity of the building was probably dictated less by taste than by the economic necessity of paying for its vastly more costly star boarder, a mechanical Lincoln. Steel-boned, electronic-nerved Abe moves and talks, but he can only manage about half the 36 expressions Barbra Streisand brags about in that song from Funny Girl...