Word: abell
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Variety's show-wise Editor Abel Green summed up in typical Variety staccato: "1947 marks the great French invasion. It's a switcheroo on Yank tourism to Gay Paree. [Miss Boyer] packs herself to a socko sum total. The Francophiles . . . were sampling the grape like it was.7-Up. . . . Miss Boyer really rings the bell. They'll be waiting for Chevalier like French postcards...
...page, 3,000-word guide to U.S.A.-Slang. The lexicographers: Danish Newsmen Victor Skaarup and Kris Winther. To keep up to the minute and sometimes an hour or so ahead, Skaarup and Winther had listened to U.S. newscasts and radio comedians, swapped letters with Variety's Editor Abel Green and studied his slangy tradepaper of "show biz." (Said Green, washing his hands of some of their definitions: "They're talking smörgasbord slanguage...
...script glosses over The Fall, ends with a regulation cliff-hang: Will Adam tell Cain & Abel why their parents were kicked out of the Garden of Eden? And if he does, what will the unmanageable Cain...
Jules Remains, marathon serialist (Men of Good Will), was initiated into the august French Academy. He wore the traditional brocaded, green dress suit and the dress sword, but he skipped the traditional speech praising his predecessor. Predecessor Abel Bonnard had been kicked out of the Academy as a collaborationist...
...Cain and Abel (Ballet Russe), by Hollywood's David Lichine. Adam's two husky sons, wearing swimming trunks, writhe on the floor in sweating ecstasy before Cain heaves Abel from a cliff, then drags Mother Eve across the set by her hair...