One of the reasons I didn't act a fool when I was in school was because I feared my father taking the belt to my butt, and that was enough to keep me on the straight and narrow.

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Parents who will give their child the right look when the child begins to act a fool and throw a tantrum.

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Francis, for one, is a hungry fool for much of the first act.

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