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Capable Scripters Betty Comden and Adolph Green wrote the book and lyrics, but apparently their thinkwell ran dry. The initial notion sounds funny: to explore the antics of a special tribe of New Yorkers who shun the workaday rat race by turning into moles. They doze at Grand Central, sleep on subways, and even rest in the Egyptian sarcophagi at the Metropolitan Museum. They are not exactly bums, but grey flannel grifters who sponge off friends, walk dogs, and ring Christmas bells as charity Santas...
...deer season lasts for eight days; in the first four, Wisconsin counted four hunters dead of gunshot wounds, six of heart attacks. At season's end, the hunters and their red shirts disappear abruptly from Hurley's streets, vanishing southward into workaday anonymity. The girls drift away, and Hurley reverts to its somnolent tween-season existence as an iron-mining town...
Democrats decided to use the same strategy that they have used so long and so successfully. With 144 delegates to be chosen-one for each seat in the legislature-they put together a slate of workaday politicians, counted on organization to pull their candidates through. The Republicans, on the other hand, pulled out all stops. Where they had spent only $34,000 on last spring's election, they earmarked $75,000 for this campaign. Instead of depending on politicians, the party drafted such leading Michigan citizens as American Motors Corp. President George Romney and Michigan State University President John...
...Spaniard's greatest contribution to modern society has been his dogged refusal to conform to it-especially to its drab, workaday timetable. No self-respecting Madrileno would think of lunching before 2 p.m., or returning to the office before 4. Matinees in Madrid begin at 7 p.m.. evening performances at 11. The cocktail hour starts at 8:30, and until he sits down to his supper at some undeterminable time after 10 p.m., the Spaniard believes it is still afternoon...
Francophile Kelly supervises Gleason's workaday lunches and explains: "I just order what I think would be a decent meal for three men, and when it's not enough, I order more." For working booze ("Whisky is for fun") Jackie absorbs six bottles a day of ruby-red Nuits-Saint-Georges-chilled, to the frigid disapproval of the Nuits-Saint-Georges bottlers...