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...consoling to those who wanted to go to Paris this summer and couldn't; it might also be seized upon with vindictive satisfaction by those who went and got rained upon . . . But to an old parigot, that beautiful photograph brings waves of tender nostalgia . . . Thanks to the habitual dove-grey Paris sky, I first learned to see color in the wet stones of the misty buildings ... in the black trunks of the chestnut trees and in their rich green leaves shining from the rain's varnish . . . What man who has not felt the wet seeping into his shoes...
Porter has got by with such rhymes plenty of times: even his wizardry is hard put to improve on four basic rhymes with "love" in the English language (above, dove, glove, shove). But while he can be shamelessly obvious, more often Porter is so dazzlingly dexterous that all the Tin Pan Alleycats bristle with awe. Nobody is cozier with words: for him, Winchell rhymes with provincial, suburban with Deanna Durbin, Nina with schizophrenia. Jehovah with Casanova, Lassie with democrassy, to the bottom I with hippopotami, a fine finnan haddie with my heart belongs to daddy, and Venetia who loved...
...With her red carnations.' said [a wedding guest], 'she looks most of all like a dove with a dagger in its breast...
...Viet Nam now, they could afford to wait for the rest. By the swapping of a few parallels, and the concession of a few months, they gained immeasurable prestige for their unexpected "generosity." In Asia the balance of power was swinging to the Reds; in Europe the Communist dove of peace flew high. Inevitably, the settlement was compared with the "peace" at Munich in 1938. This peace was different; it was a surrender after defeat in battle. But in a sense, it was worse, for it was negotiated with full knowledge of the folly of Munich...
...when the movies were young, silent and reasonably carefree, an actor named Elmo Lincoln donned a leopardskin, yodeled, and dove from a studio tree into a studio tank. Thus began a series of films about an ape man named Tarzan, a character based loosely on the hero of the Edgar Rice Burroughs books. The movie series, 28 in all, wore out ten Tarzans-among them Johnny Weissmuller, Buster Crabbe, Glenn Morris and Lex Barker-but never the plot. Such humdingers as Tarzan and the Mermaids and Tarzan's Magic Fountain found their way to the screens of thousands...