Word: eared
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Richard Nixon, by Ear! Mazo. A fascinating biography, flattering but far from a campaign puff piece...
...from the fans of such vintage Grey as Wild Horse Mesa and Riders of the Purple Sage. The prose clomps along on two-by-four stilts ("There was completed in his mind a resolve to go down into Idaho, when opportunity afforded"), and the dialogue echoes a tin-plated ear ("If you think I'm wonderful and if I think you're wonderful-it's all really very wonderful, isn't it?"). Instead of speaking their lines, characters "vouchsafe" them; they wash and shave in morning "ablutions." A well-adjusted cowpoke qualifies as "that worthy...
...sight, yet slim and pretty in a baby blue, three-button suit and a small white straw hat. The royal family whisked the President off to the great castle, then to a picnic tea beside shining Loch Muick. When Elizabeth whispered something in the President's ear, he said: "Oh, wonderful. Wonderful...
...inch bust herself, and is holding furtive assignations with a school chum in the ruins of ancient Rome. "We teach our children how to be children," reflects one of the characters in The Maid. "But has anyone taught us how to be fathers? We have to play it by ear." And that is how they play the whole picture...
Ogunquit, Me., Playhouse: Lend an Ear, a musical revue...