Word: decorousness
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Fleur's Flair, which will be shown this week in a limited edition to 5,000 potential advertisers and subscribers, looks like a fancy bouillabaisse of Vogue, Town & Country, Holiday, etc. By covering "fashion, art, literature, travel, decor, theater and entertainment," Editor Cowles expects to lure enough readers to guarantee advertisers a circulation of 200,000 (at 50? a copy) at the start...
...unclear--perhaps they think it will improve the humor of the magazine, which, in recent months, has slipped to a position somewhat short of overpowering. Perhaps the dutch tiles with which the walls of their sanctum are lined need a spring cleaning; perhaps they look forward to a gayer decor, with chintz curtains in every leaded window...
...straw-hat circuit. Its jokes and patter are brittle, rowdy, funny and full of satirical special reference. A number of its people (most of them members of a permanent cast) grew up in show business with such bright youngsters as Danny Kaye and Betty Garrett. By & large, the costumes, decor and choreography are better than may be found in any nightclub and many theaters. Its smooth pace is interrupted only by a tedious five-minute commercial which not even the "muddle-talk" of old Radio Comedian Roy Atwell can speed...
This Very Earth reads as if it were written by a man under a deep spell, as if Caldwell himself were aware that something was the matter, and simply did not know what to do about it. Its prose has the glassy, elaborately monotonous decor of the language of hypnosis, beneath which the reader can sense the hysteria of someone trying to re-establish communication with the world. In what is obviously a rigorous act of will rather than the product of a freely flowing imagination, Caldwell puts his characters through his standard novelistic paces without once indicating what motivating...
...York's blizzard, most of the Yukon was enjoying crisp, sunny weather, and an inch or two of dry powdered snow merely lent a seasonable Christmas decor to the streets of Whitehorse and Dawson. The town thermometer outside the famous Whitehorse Inn has rarely dropped below zero this winter...