Word: agente
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...terminal abroad. The company will first blanket Europe with rental agencies, then push on to South America and the rest of the world. Eventually, a traveler will be able to rent a car from Aachen to Zanzibar simply by phoning his nearest Hertz or American Express office, travel agent, airline or shipping company...
After living in what a real estate agent called a "luxury home," I have a new version of my dream house: a log cabin on a wooded lot in a moderate climate...
...problem. Thus, to buy silence, the television set goes to a despised subordinate, a piano to someone else, a raccoon coat to a third. Simochka is saved, at the price of most of Daddy's worldly goods-only to be trapped again by a girl MVD agent who wins the simple Communist debutante's confidence with a copy of a magazine resembling Vogue...
...sporting a toupee and a confident sneer of a smile, the new Paar, 39, zanily preens himself, takes pride in guest performers he has shuttled starward (Comedienne Carol Burnett, Singers Diahann Carroll, Trish Dwelley), exchanges mad colloquies with a redhaired, clodpated comedienne named Dody Goodman, and, against his agent's advice, calls himself "the King." (Explains Paar: "Overstatement is very funny.") With an Ernie Kovackian flair for electronic jabberwocky and oddball gimmicks, he throws in some wild Italian movies or stages a midget-car race on the studio floor. For the most part, though, Paar just talks with...
...lullaby is one of a dozen Songs of Couch and Consultation (Commentary Records) beguilingly warbled over her own guitar playing by blonde Nightclub Singer Katie Lee. With lyrics by Bud Freeman, a sometime movie press-agent and independent recordmaker, the disk is an eminently amusing spoof of the nation's taste in song and psychoanalysis. As the album opens, Katie is heard applying to a head-shrinker...