Word: uptightness
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...unwritten law of Harvard Square's newspaper dealers is made by Sheldon Cohen, owner of "Out of Town Newspapers, Inc." Procopio charged yesterday that Cohen's dislike for competitors has been the source of many of their troubles. "We are pennies compared to Cohen but he gets so uptight about us. We don't understand...
...rules; it's the man. Same as back in the world. A black man is the only one they grab for spitting on the streets. Over here if a bunch of brothers get together to blow some grass, right away the officers get uptight; in the next barracks over, white guys are doing the same thing, but nobody bothers them. The regs [Army Regulations] say you can grow your hair this long, but the first sergeant says he don't care what the regs say, because he don't like no black man with...
...crazy if you try to project what they'll do," Getchell said. "Freshman players are very open-ended. I spend the year teaching them an enormous amount of skills, but the kids are uptight as freshmen. They don't know exactly where they stand and can't assert themselves...
...unfulfills: a go-go dancer (Geri Miller), a sex-parched housewife (Andrea Feld-man), and last and by every means least, a raucous female impersonator named Holly (Holly Woodlawn). In the film's climactic scene, Holly stuffs a pillow under its sweater, feigning pregnancy to con an uptight, upright social worker out of welfare money. Those who can respect Trash will hasten Warhol & Co. to their ultimate alchemy, the recovery of gold from garbage. Stefan Kanfer
...itself as a "social comedy of today's world." As the audience absorbs that modest claim, the film opens on Tad (Scott Glenn), mustachioed and lank-haired, wailing with a guitar in his dingy L.A. beach pad. His chick Tish (Barbara Hershey) is off to check out an uptight middle-class couple whose triplex in Brentwood is without child. Seems Mrs. Triplex has had a hysterectomy, and Tish is to audition for a possible rent-a-womb job with Mr. Triplex. There is heavy bread in the offing if she actually reproduces. "If we start right away...