Word: bored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From Every Direction. What caused that slump? There is no one cause. A complex set of factors bore in on the industry-and hit it all at once...
...tradition, almost managed to mask the fact that the play was little more than a monologue. This Property Is Condemned was another disguised monologue, touchingly acted by a 13-year-old ballet hopeful, Zina Bethune. As an abandoned child living in the tortured, twisted glories of her past, she bore a remarkable resemblance to her older but equally demented sister, Blanche DuBois of Streetcar fame. Tennessee's three were clearly the first drafts of a talented author's later work. Their distinction lay in the fact that the talent was clearly there. For viewers, they provided...
...triumph, was just as ecstatic. At a Kremlin reception, squat Premier Nikita Khrushchev threw his arms about Van's beanpole, 6-ft.-4-in. frame, asked him why he was so tall. Grinned Van: "Because I'm from Texas." At a second Kremlin reception, Khrushchev bore down on Cliburn with hands outstretched, jovially introduced him to his son, daughter and granddaughter. When a waiter appeared with champagne, teetotaling Van shifted from one foot to another, murmured "I really don't care for any," finally took a glass, clinked, sipped and discarded it. Even Nikolai Bulganin...
...best. His hero, Mr. Hutton, is clever, covered in tweed and money troubles, able to explain everything about everything except his own sex life. Sex, typically, is represented by Doris, a lower-class ball of margarine-and-fun; also typically, the hero's wife is a virtuous bore with a distressing number of ailments. Huxley writes of women with the ruminative repulsion of a male spider half-digested in mid-honeymoon. When Mrs. Hutton is poisoned, it looks like Hutton's work. Actually another Huxley horror woman has done the deed. Hutton, the reader feels...
...expects the chemise to take over completely. But it may well prove a boon to the girl with the less-than-perfect figure who wants to conceal, rather than reveal, on the beach-and a bore to the men who have to look...