Word: coolness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unhappy beginning, the scriptwriters quickly get down to the business of kidding the pants off Brigitte. In a hilariously overplayed bit of French farce, Brigitte is found by her father hiding in Vidal's bed, and delightedly accepts his stern order that they marry. Order carried out, her cool cat still yowls on neighboring fences. For revenge, Brigitte leaps out of her dress at a visiting prince (Charles Boyer) and wriggles her way into an invitation to fly down to Nice for the afternoon. A few sinless hours later, of course, she is back nibbling again at a repentant...
Rathbone is highly effective in the second play, if not quite up to Eric Port-man, who was his Broadway predecessor. He is not yet so much at home in the first play. He is habitually cool, clean, clipped and polished; and it is clearly an effort for him to be awkward, slovenly, and impetuous...
Colicos has a good deal of fine support. Nancy Wickwire, as his wronged queen Hermione, is cool at first, but warms up to moving eloquence in the trial scene. And she performs a remarkable ten-minute bit of inanimation in the final scene. Hermione's attendant Paulina is one of literature's great denunciators, and Nancy Marchand brings plenty of force to the part. It is no discredit to her that she cannot match the magnificent power that Florence Reed imparted to the role in the Theatre Guild production a dozen years...
Last week Gleason was gleefully passing around a story sent out by the local bureau of United Press International, which had bought the fake interview as the cool truth, and forthwith dispatched it without credit to Gleason's column. Said the U.P.I, story: "San Francisco's famed 'beatsters' are shaving off their beards, Jazz Musician Shorty Pederstein explains, 'The beard has lost its effect and is now respectable. To wear a beard is no distinction. Not to wear a beard is the strongest pattern of nonconformity...
From a vast, air-conditioned restaurant with sweeping glass windows, thin, tanned women and fat, pale men peered over thick steaks and cool drinks at the dirt track below. Roosevelt Raceway, the orange-and-magenta pleasure dome at Westbury, N.Y. was having its biggest harness-racing season in history. A record $144 million had been bet in the first 82 days of the meeting. For the highlight Messenger Stake* prize money had reached $108,565, making it the richest pacing race of all time...