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...could offer the younger generation any advice, I would say: Never think of your car as a cold engine but as a hot-blooded horse, racing together with the rider like one beautiful harmonious unit. As for me, the rider has grown older and more blasé than the horse...
...started to say, drops the whole idea and piles into the middle again with furious drive. As for his wife and partner Darlene, she sounds as if she were singing in a closet through several folds of cheesecloth. In songs like Autumn in New York and You're Blasé, she launches into the lyrics exquisitely off pitch, gropes up and down the scale in bewildered search...
...county grand jury began hearings on the case and U.S. Attorney Robert Tieken checked up on possible income tax evasions, blasé Chicagoans and their newspapers quickly lost interest. In the major leagues of Illinois and Cook County scandal. $444,000 is a minor-league steal. But Treasurer Paschen, firing two suspects with more to go. sighed like a man just missed by lightning: "I'm deeply shocked that such a thing could have gone on in the office. I knew nothing of it, of course...
...Aghast." Even if they grow blasé or hostile toward Van Doren as an unbeatable contestant, it is difficult to imagine viewers tiring of the fascinating, suspense-taut spectacle of his highly trained mind at work. Breathing heavily, Charlie coaxes elusive answers out of odd corners of his brains by talking to himself, muttering little associated fragments of knowledge. Like a boxer staying down for a count of nine, he takes all the time he can possibly get ("Let's skip that part, please, and come back to it"). When trying to identify the character in La Traviata...
...Silly Intrigues." As for the phrase "Blas Himmler," said Robles sardonically, "how could it be regarded as injurious to compare anybody with Himmler when Herr Himmler (chief of Hitler's Gestapo) was received with full honors and presented with the highest Spanish decoration during his visit here in 1940?" The sentences handed down by the court were surprisingly light: six months to a year and $125 to $250 fines...