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...said for the other performances, since the other characters are all types, one-note foils for Mandel to play off of. Besides the aforementioned Evil Brother and Idealistic Scientist, there is the Boozing Wife, the Senile Cat Lady, the Crusty Backwoodsman, the Angry Neighbor, the Venal Lawyer, and the Stuck-up In-laws. Walk is basically Mandel's showpiece, and no one is allowed to upstage...

Author: By Gary L. Susman, | Title: Walk Like a Man | 4/30/1987 | See Source »

...hell with the teachers who won't comebecause they're too stuck-up," said Ellen Havdala'88. "Guys, $1000 when we can do it in one of thehouses for free...

Author: By Julie L. Belcove, | Title: Council Hopes Plaque Will Affect Tenure Process | 1/9/1987 | See Source »

...party," one punchee said. "They take you out to the North Shore and play touch football and drink, and I've never found them condescending or stuck...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: From Pig to Porc: The Changing World of Final Clubs | 10/30/1978 | See Source »

...libido at the country house of his sister-in-law, gentle Annie. He also wreaks havoc on his relations. "I'm a three-a-day man," he declares, beating his puny chest. With virtuoso cunning, he almost makes the boast good. Annie, then his angry wife, and even stuck-up Sarah (another sister-in-law), fall into his arms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Lover Takes All | 12/22/1975 | See Source »

...equable hospitality to neutralist leaders, Nasser does not feel neutral about them personally. He does not like Sukarno; a devoted family man himself, he was shocked when, on a previous visit to Cairo, Sukarno asked to be provided with feminine companionship. Nasser finds Ghana's Nkrumah stuck-up, Nehru too preachy. But he likes Toure as "a natural man" (and a Moslem who calls himself Ahmad when in Cairo), and last week Toure came away from Cairo with a $16.8 million loan, repayable in seven years at 2½% interest, plus a $5,600,000 barter trade agreement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Guinea: Red & Dead | 5/26/1961 | See Source »

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