Word: clips
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more U.S. capital that goes abroad, the better are chances for easing the U.S. foreign-aid load. For U.S. business itself, expansion abroad is simply business foresight. Says William Blackie, executive vice president of Caterpillar Tractor Co. "The whole world is starting to consume at an accelerated clip. Americans have to face the possibility of being shut out of foreign markets unless they build plants overseas...
...better imitation than anyone else. At least two songs-Do I Love You Because You're Beautiful? and Ten Minutes Ago-had the lilt to last for a while, and the record of Cinderella -issued well in advance of the show-was selling this week at the clip of a Broadway-hit album. However reminiscent of other Rodgers' works, the score had warmth and plenty of whirl to propel dancers through Choreographer Jonathan Lucas' gay patterns in a slick production handsomely set and costumed by William and Jean Eckhart...
...sickle moon suspended high above the audience and tossing down garters and other pretty trinkets. But only at her first appearance, coming-with snow on her picture hat-into a restaurant filled with ghostly elegance, to dine alone, to struggle with asparagus and be rebuffed by corn, to clip a lobster's claws and dip gloved fingers in a finger bowl-only then does Lillie achieve a definitive grandeur de folie, or the Follies recapture the grandeur that was Rome...
...recoil from a total recall of basic-training days had better skip the novel's second half, which follows the hero into the Army. The writing here is as concentrated and about as interesting as K-rations, e.g.: "This is the U.S. rifle, calibre thirty, MI. It is clip-fed, it is air-cooled, it is gas-operated...
...convey the mellowness of time passing, Author Flood goes in relentlessly for air-cooled, clip-fed flashbacks. He has a hostly urge to escort the reader to the best schools, streets, shops and restaurants, like a kind of fictional branch of the A.A.A. Persistently understated and overbred, A Distant Drum belongs to the Forest Lawn of American writing where the cosmetician's art skillfully mimics but cannot summon life...