Word: bit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rick's Cafe Americain, whose proprietor wears a white dinner jacket, speaks with a faint lisp, and drinks a great deal when unhappy, sports an odd assortment of minor characters; they are bit parts, from which the actors have squeezed everything. Fat Sidney Greenstreet, with fez, is Farrari, the jovial "leader of all illegal activities in Casablanca." Peter Lorre is a funny, intense worm who sells blackmarket visas to refugees stranded in the unoccupied French city; the producers could afford to lead him off screaming after fifteen minutes: but in that time he created a lasting figure...
Your April 8 Press section refers to the "Seattle Times (circ. 190,789) and Hearst's Post-Intelligencer (circ. 208,224)." A bit of checking will reveal that you have switched the circulation figures. Come now, you know that the Times is Seattle's leading daily...
...budget uproar came to be called "the Humphrey flap." Typical remark at Cabinet meetings: "George, you see what you cost me in the House this week?" The most outspoken of Humphrey's Cabinet critics was Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks, whose New England sense of thrift is every bit as sharp as that of Midwesterner Humphrey...
...entertainment, Hotel Paradiso is a bit in-and-out itself. The show has lively spurts and is attractively dotted with mad scenes. Osbert Lancaster's expertly ghastly sets are part of the fun, and the play's various set-tos are here and there funny. The whole evening is a brightly instructive exhibit of the mechanics of French farce; it is never quite an occasion of full-bodied merriment...
...course of this thoroughly distasteful affair, the spectator gets hardly a whiff of the shower-room sociology that permeated the book. He does learn a bit about what goes on inside a sadist-mostly, in this case, repressed homosexuality. Most of all, he gets a handsome introduction to two of Hollywood's most promising young men: Director Jack Garfein, 26, and Actor Ben Gazzara, 26, two products of Manhattan's Actors' Studio, who make their film debut with this picture. Garfein has directed the film more deftly than he staged the play on Broadway; he shows...