Word: functions
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Since the story is no more than an excuse to keep the performers occupied between numbers, Producer Zanuck treats it like an ugly stepchild. Its principal function is to present the cheesecake of the cast-blonde, lethargic Alice Faye and blonde, lithe Betty Grable-as the sister act of Katie and Lily Blane. Capitalizing on their more obvious assets, the film sets Alice and Betty wriggling and crooning in cellophane hula skirts and harem costumes. Clearly neither of the girls cares to hand over the picture to the other, and their artistic competition results in a standoff. Miss Faye...
...jong tiles upstairs. There is activity at the Faculty Club-it has really become a social center for the Harvard professors and their families. For the first time since the University faculty began rivaling the French foreign legion in size and diversity, their club is performing its intended function...
...promise to resign. Six hundred delegates heard him. He wept. He resigned. He advised the convention not to "consume your time in criticism and slander and vilification," and hurled insults at "silly old Bill Green," president of A. F. of L. He declared: "The labor movement cannot exist or function without confidence on the part of its members, each with the other, confidence that they will associate themselves together. . . ." The next day, jut-jawed, broad face pale, he delivered a bilious soliloquy, kindled bitterness on all sides...
...when he feels that any student is cutting so much that his mark is liable to be lowered, he should let that student know it. The Harvard cut system is so general that the student and the section man must work in close cooperation, if it is to function satisfactorily. As it is now, the clever student often takes advantage of the section man, while the unwary student suffers...
...suit unless it fits well; he's a piker compared with the Mount A. Street trio. They won't sell a suit unless it fits the personality of the buyer. Every piece of clothing that goes out of the little brick shops is designed to fill a definite function in the wordrobe of its owner...