Word: unkempt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...favorite entertainer has appeared not only robbed him of his special brand of comedy but left most of Berle on the cutting-room floor. This attractively bedraggled production allows the Berle style full rein, for better or worse. As a result, Berle comes through as a powerfully unkempt personality-the prototype of the life-of-every-party...
Here & there the show has a nice rowdy zip, but oftener it is just brassy and unkempt. Its purple-lighted torch songs and arty anatomical dances have a bygone, almost burlesque air about them; its way of joking is as familiar as its jokes. As a result, several talented people have a lot of trouble proving that they are. Handsome Crooner Carol Bruce can only be huskily banal; Nancy Walker is amusingly tough at times, but in general the going is tougher. Amid so much theatrical wet wash, only Hank Ladd's slow easy patter seems properly laundered...
...When I travel I get moody," says Rocky Graziano. Out in Oakland, Calif., far from his Brooklyn haunts, Rocky was training for a fight with Oldtimer Fred Apostoli when a mood struck him. He wired a friend for $300. When the money came, he hopped a plane, unkempt, unshaven and still dressed in his training clothes. A snowstorm that grounded the plane in Chicago didn't stop him; without bothering to cash the unused part of his plane ticket, he climbed aboard a train for New York...
...people"-the descendants of farmers whose farms had been bought by the planters. In this class, two-thirds of the men had been killed or crippled in the war. They were wretched beyond description, living in cabins with hencoop sides and porous roofs. Wrinkled, filthy, with desperate eyes and unkempt hair, they chewed tobacco, drank, fought, lived a life "of rare day's works, some begging, some stealing, much small, illicit bargaining, and frequent migrations...
...famous picture of himself, impeccably attired in top hat and morning coat, signing Japan's surrender aboard the U.S.S. Missouri. At that moment, Lieut. Colonel Aubrey Kenworthy, U.S. officer in charge of the prisoners, passed. "Haven't you seen these pictures before?" he asked. Shigemitsu shook his unkempt head, kept turning the pages. Then he muttered: "It's been such a long time...