Word: chaing
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...That'll be a snap. Nate. Nothing to it.' " Says Loeb to Leopold, as they are planning to collect ransom for Bobby Franks: "Hey, this is neat, Nate-hey, I'm a poet!" When headlines announce: BODY OF BOY FOUND IN SWAMP, Loeb asks: "What'cha think, Nate? When are these damn papers printed?" Leopold replies: "Hell, I don't know. Couple of hours...
...pulled out many things: crumbling papers with writing in Tibetan and the rare Lan Cha type of the Indie alphabet, raw silk, strips of colored cloth, a chain of silver emblems, a bronze mirror, a faded silken bag made up in the shape of a human stomach containing a bewildering collection of pieces of metal, woods, seeds and beads...
...patron wishes her to accompany him on a country-club weekend. She should be able to discuss not only the classic poets but also atomic energy, a subject now taught at the geisha academy. Her dancing should be at least as up-to-date as the mambo and the cha-cha-cha. ("Very handy when you're saddled with an obnoxious guest whom you don't like touching," said one geisha of the mambo...
Many of the age-tarnished hotels were ensuring themselves rush business by switching from the European to the American plan. To sweeten the deal, some even threw in free wiener roasts, sightseeing trips and lessons in dancing the cha cha cha...
...wonder is that this Polyphemus of productions does not simply collapse of its own overweight; but, thanks principally to Showman Todd, the picture skips along with an amazing lightness-like a fat lady winning a cha-cha contest. As a travelogue, Around the World is at least as spectacular as anything Cinerama has slapped together. The customer is offered an album of house-high snapshots of summer in Paris, corridas in Spain, religious festivals in India, a Wild West show in the hoariest Hollywood tradition; and at one point he is even permitted to witness a sight that the 19th...