Word: barke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...From the foggy shorelines of Flensburg on the Baltic north to Mittenwald on the craggy shoulders of the Bavarian Alps, the old sounds can be heard throughout the day and much of the night, stirring nightmares of the past and mixed feelings about the future. The sounds are the bark of parade-ground sergeants, the whine of fighter planes, the far-trailing echo of strong young voices singing When the Soldiers March Through Town as a paratroop company swings along Franconian roads...
...entertainment is concerned, Package contains only what is known in show business as a bomb Director Donen clearly intended to tell a shaggy-dog story the way John Huston did in his hilarious Beat the Devil but unfortunately, Donen's dog turns out to be all bark and no bite. The hero (Brynner) 'is a big-time hood deported from the U.S. to his native Greece and confined by the Greek government to a small Aegean island. The story evolves around his attempt to get back in the money by relieving an exiled king Noel Coward...
Angles & Bells. Hollywood, for its part, isn't going for the angle. Groucho Marx, not even bothering to make his bark witty, summed up one school of local opinion by calling Susskind "this phony New York intellectual." In a Daily Variety column. Humorist Max Shulman wrote of "Mr. Susskind, the noted television trailblazer. who gave us a video adaptation of The Bells of St. Mary's." Susskind sniffed: "People mention these things to me. but I absolutely refuse to read the local papers and the trade papers. I only read the New York papers...
Deformed, unfinished, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them...
Remarkably enough, there have been few really satisfactory dictionaries of American slang. H. L. Mencken made his prodigious contribution (The American Language), and Lester Berrey and Melvin Van den Bark produced their useful but not fundamental compendium (The American Thesaurus of Slang). Standing up well against the competition, Dr. Harold Wentworth, editor of the American Dialect Dictionary, and Stuart Berg Flexner, Cornell and University of Louisville philologist, have produced a handy, invaluable reference work that may well emerge as the standard in the field. In short, the authors have done a remarkably fly and dicty...