Word: ah
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...executive any state ever had, can play peckerwood better than any shoeless redneck out of the back country. When he campaigned for office, his "Strawberry Pickers," a hillbilly band, followed him everywhere. He waved what he called a "suds bucket" for contributions and shouted, "You furnish the suds and ah'll do the scrubbing"-i.e., clean up the state. He said he kissed 50,000 women during his campaign...
...oldies--classical "standards," if you wish. The thing's glutted with them. But the plot--ah, the plot--it keeps gooing in. Marsha Hunt maudles the part of the mother who plans a concert pianist's career for her son, Tony. Miraculous point of the picture is the maintenance of Miss Hunt's girlish appearance throughout Tony's growth to manhood. Only when dewy-eyed Miss Hunt hears Tony break from Bach into jazz does a great gob of cornstarch fall on her hair and remain from that day forward...
...surest signs of spring in Buenos Aires is the piropo, the compliment whispered to girls by young men on the prowl. Sometimes it is a simple: "Ah, mi corazón, where are you going?" More frequently it is a formularized gambit of a sort that has been used for generations. Thus, overhauling a girl in a green dress, a gay blade breathes into her ear: "You are a miracle when green; what will you be when you are ripe...
...Peerce, tenor, Leonard Warren, baritone, with the RCA-Victor Orchestra, Jean Paul Morel and Erich Leinsdorf conducting; Victor, 4 sides). Peerce and Warren too often sing vocal duels instead of duets. The album includes Solenne in Quest' Ora from Verdi's La Forza del Destino and Ah, Mimi, Tu Più from Puccini's La Bohème. Recording: good...
...Ah, Great People." Is that exalted attitude a preface to dictatorial tenden cies? Perhaps; but De Gaulle understands the danger of dictatorship well. He has said: "What is dictatorship? Doubtless its first steps may seem attractive. Amid the enthusiasm of some and the resignation of others, amid the rigor of the order which it imposes and with the help of spectacular staging and one-way propaganda, dictatorship can at first assume a dynamic aspect which contrasts agreeably with the anarchy which preceded it. But it is the fate of dictatorship to exaggerate. . . . The nation becomes a machine which the master...