Word: dashes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lanny journeys to the West Coast, where Louella Parsons, floored by his dash and balderdash, gasps: "Somebody ought to give him a screen test." Hearst begs him to accept $50,000 a year for some random reportage. He has another bedside chat with the President (Lanny edits one of F.D.R.'s speeches, in which he invents and inserts the phrase "arsenal of democracy"), and is off to see Adolf Hitler chew a rug. Göring smuggle a swallow of dope, and "Rudi" Hess resolve to fly to England...
...ridiculous. Ferrer's production strikes the delicate balance between pomposity and farce. At rare moments in the comic scenes there is an overstraining after effect, but this can be blamed on the script. It is when Rostand tries to be another Shakespeare or Racine that the play loses its dash. The death of Christian, the puppet lover, and the end of Cyrano himself in a nunnery are on the edge of ennui. Written at a time when audiences liked their melodrama lush and their tears wet, these heroics leave the modern theatre-goer cold...
...wives in Manhattan) had been sent a basket of wine (four bottles) by a California vintner, responded with a womanly international gesture. To the pilot who had flown the wine from the Cresta Blanca vineyards she dictated her recipe for Chinese Burgundy: beaten whites two eggs, one pint Burgundy, dash vanilla extract, dash orange bitters; stir in the whites slowly...
Actor Olivier's Hotspur was no ranting hothead, but a feudal lord with tremendous dash-gay, sarcastic, masterful. (In Part II Actor Olivier turned up delightfully as that "forked radish," gaunt, garrulous Justice Shallow...
When bloodhounds (antisyphilitic "magic bullets") are set upon Corky, he realizes that he must make a mad dash through the body, decides that the quickest way is to get into the heart and get pumped around. So he latches on to the first blood cell that floats by and puts an outboard motor on it. At Mucosa, where he finds his cohorts blasting out a skin eruption, he embarrasses them by using the naughty, half-forbidden word, syphilis. He is reminded: "We don't mention the word among ourselves, and brother, we get around...