Word: crassness
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Probable lineups: WE THEY Farb, A. P. Arb, U. G. O'Crustes, P. R. Isinglass, C. O. Coffin, E. G. Ergo, I. E. Simple, W. Murray Dunce (Cap.) Crass, B. O. A. Stilborne, O. C. Foo, K. Fowne, E. Ole (Cap.) Doung, M. O. O. ranter, D. L. Darnom, H. A. Gumdrop...
Milland turns up as a vaudeville trick-shot artist in a post-bellum copper-mining town where Villain MacDonald Carey is whipping up anti-Confederate feeling for crass economic reasons. The ex-colonel rallies the underprivileged Southerners, converts Adventuress Lamarr to righteousness and does his bit to bind the nation's wounds by quoting Lincoln on "malice toward none." What is especially depressing about Copper Canyon is not so much its dreary reprise of movies best forgotten as its dreary portent of movies still to come...
...Mortimer had one quality Fuseli lacked: crass humor. Along with a doleful Caliban and a tumultuous Hercules Slaying the Hydra, he drew such fantasies as an orchestra of flatulent beasts, which must have seemed capricious and vulgar to all but his best friends. Yet, says Grigson, Fuseli and Mortimer "drank to different depths out of the same brew and looked together into the abyss. Mortimer [like Fuseli] wildly, demoniacally, lit up, the eyes, accentuated them in shade, filled them with the gleam of interior flame and power...
Editor Jack Lait of the New York Daily Mirror, who has been filling in for Columnist Walter Winchell during summer vacation, sounded an exasperated note this week with his "annual salute to the free-lance and staff press agents, whose crass ineptitude and stupidity, with few exceptions, amazes me anew each semester." Said Lait: "Here are people who are close to glamorous characters, whose sole business is exploiting them. So they come up with either dull trade items of bookings, bald raves or patent fakes tying up their clients with imaginary romances. They issue pusillanimous and preposterous puns and they...
...first story, life lays a sudden crass hand on the innocence of 13-year-old Agostino. He is staying at a seaside resort with his lovely widowed mother. She has made up to him for his father's death by being even more to him than most mothers. But when she falls in love with a young man, she has little time for Agostino. Idling about the beach, he gets in with a bunch of young toughs, sons of the waiters and fishermen. They know a world which well-to-do Agostino has never even glimpsed, a world...