Word: casting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...civil rights bill was substantially the one that had been recommended by the Administration. In five key sections it provides that: On petition of disenfranchised citizens, U.S. district courts shall appoint voting referees (TIME, March 14), who will see to it that Negroes qualified under state laws get to cast a vote in federal, state and local elections...
...other Saroyantic types who deposit both cash and wisdom. Among them: a stripper named Daisy Dimple, a blind man who doubles as "squopper'' or tragic chorus, a gypsy who spouts Greek that translates into Saroyanese. ("All is not all. How could it ever be?" ) Also in the cast of characters: a girl who is having a baby by an American named Marlon Brando Cavalcanti and who worries about radioactive fallout, a Scotland Yard inspector named Overboard, and a Russian who stands on his head. And then there is an "ambassador from the audience" who sits onstage and asks...
What all these people are up to even the playwright is not sure. But by last week both he and the cast were almost convinced that Sam is about a bank robbery in which the take includes 500,000 defective pound notes. (A Bank of England cashier named G. O. Dodd has signed them "Good God" by error.) Sam is accused and fired. A priest gets hold of the cash and distributes it to unwed pregnant women who "promise to stop it." Sam develops "delusions of grandeur, paranoia and schizophrenia." and decides that he is the world's greatest...
...Sheriff William Flanagan delved into history and also infuriated Republicans (who are threatening to sue) by suggesting that Republicans stuffed the ballot box at midnight in 1954 to assure the election of Senator Clifford Case. Said another politician: "In Jersey City, the dead still rise on election day to cast their ballots...
...pack of lies; white lies, green lies, slick, sly, funny lies, and every one as harmless as the tines of a well-sharpened hayfork. Adapted from George Shiels's play called The New Gossoon,* the film is lifted off the green sod by the main strength of its cast: the Abbey Theater players and their American guest, Actress Julie Harris...