Word: ah
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cerebral meningitis). Humor was his nature, sorrow only his perversity-as he himself may have realized, for it is said that when confronted with a huge bill for a surgical operation toward the end of his life, he sank back into the arms of the Comic Muse, saying: "Ah, well, then, I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means...
...dashed after his chérie, married her and almost immediately stopped loving her. There followed a succession of mistresses. The first was expensive and forced him to write his early books about philosophy to provide her with pocket money. The second was Sophie, Diderot's great love. "Ah," he rhapsodized, "what a woman! How tender she is, how sweet, honest, delicate, sensible!" But she was hardly a beauty. At 38, she was well past the first blush of youth. Nevertheless he wrote her lovingly: "My dear, I kiss your brow, your eyes, and your dried-up little face...
...flows neatly, and the effect is only slightly dampened by a rather inept ending. Lack of a punchline is also the principal fault of his verse-captions for a two-page spread on football weekends. The redeeming features of these two layouts are Hill's cartoons. Another such display, Ah, Radcliffe Girl, suffers conversely; Fletcher's verse is clever and light, but most of the drawings, by J. G. Marcos...
...Hollywood's sacred cows, the gossip columnists. Actress Jessica Tandy once went to Marlon's dressing room with a powerful woman who, as everybody in the entertainment business knows, likes to think of herself as still quite youthful-looking. Said Marlon to Jessica in his silkiest tone: "Ah, this must be your mother." Columnist Hedda Hopper also went to interview him. "She talked for half an hour solid," says a Hollywood reporter, "and in all that time Marlon gave exactly one and a half grunts." He now calls Hedda "The One with the Hat," and Louella Parsons...
...starter for a prestige builder. The madcap antics, the entrances and exits tended to jumble on the TV screen without jelling. Producer Martin Manulis should have better results with plays to come. Among them: The Man Who Came to Dinner, Panama Hattie, The Philadelphia Story, Arsenic and Old Lace, Ah, Wilderness...