Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...real-estate business," he said. "I am interested in a nightclub in Louisiana, and I have some oil leases in Texas." Pressed, he did admit that his nightclub (the famed Beverly Club near New Orleans) had a "casino." There was a little gambling in the casino: "Just to make it clear, they play the roulette wheel and dice...
...darkly. Last week they flocked to the village hall to protest. A contractor pleaded that the all-of-a-kind method was the only economically sound way to build houses these days. Scarsdale wasn't interested. After due deliberation the village board approved a new law designed to make each house-by variation in dimensions or rearrangement of windows and doors-distinguishable from each other...
Businessmen labored up 20 flights of stairs, got to their apartments breathing heavily and looking as disheveled as molting chickens. Garbage piled up outside kitchen doors 26 floors above the street. No mail or newspapers flipped down outside the doors. Grocery boys refused to make high-altitude deliveries, and floor neighbors who had never before spoken got together to pool food supplies...
...listening to their stars. "When Bergman's lips pop as she says 'my,' my lips must pop as I say 'mon,' " explains Paula, who tries to duplicate not only the stars' inflections but their voices as well. "Sometimes I have to watch Bergman make her speech three, four or even five times before I am ready. I stare and stare and watch her mouth until I feel that I've practically crawled down her throat...
Last week Paula refused to make her lips pop like Ingrid's-She and the other dubbers had decided to hold their stars' tongues and go on strike for higher pay. "I have only the most grandiose notions of what Bergman got for playing Joan of Arc," said Paula, "but I do know that for being her French voice I got only $148.50." The dubbers' strike leader, Actor Georges Hubert, scoffed at reports that the strike was a Communist attempt to turn off the flow of U.S. pictures to France. "We have only the old-fashioned capitalist...