Word: ah
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...what is responsible for the change? A small thing, says Director Clair. The good-for-nothing has discovered that he is good for something-if only to hide a criminal from the police. As he happily explains to his reluctant accomplice (Georges Brassens): "At last I'm useful." Ah yes, Director Clair seems to sigh, the forces of law and order do have such a difficult time-good is almost impossible to stamp out. But then, so is evil, and in the end the moralist acknowledges that...
...competent in its own right, Author Maurois tenderly quotes the description of Miss Howard given to an interviewer by an aged servant of Beauregard: "I shall never forget Milady descending the stairs in the Chateau on the tick of seven in a great crinoline and wearing all her pearls. Ah, Monsieur, how beautiful she was! I promise you that she was a most respectable person and fairy-godmother...
...Grand Canal. But - hark! - what is that sinister shadow slinking away near by? As a dedicated Young Communist, Chin Lan Tse knows the answer: it is a skulking saboteur in the employ of the decadent Kuomintang clique. Chin Lan Tse pulls the trigger. "Bang!" and the bullet flies out. "Ah yah!" bellows the fascist running dog of capitalism as he vanishes in the night. Dauntless Chin Lan Tse pursues him, falls into a ditch. What bad luck! But, no, it is good luck. For it is at this very point that the treacherous saboteur has done his foul work: water...
...shaved, so just tell them to lay out the tails and white tie." He made it to the Mayflower Hotel affair almost on time, looking fresh, with an optimistic reply to the question on everyone's mind. Passing Nixon in the reception line, Pakistan's Ambassador Mohammed AH asked about President Eisenhower. "Much better," said Nixon. "I saw him today. The King saw him, too. He's much better...
...middle C) jazz singer who wears wicked black sheaths and Vampira makeup, and is visually and musically the most striking of the new girl singers. Her audiovisual analogue would be a bass sax wrapped in a lace nightie. Using a vocabulary of oo's, ee's and ah's, she sings one entire side of her first LP (That Satin Doll; Atlantic) almost completely without words. This could sound like a cat trapped in a rain barrel, but somehow manages not to. In the best of her all-but-wordless songs (the composer, Phil Moore, calls...