Word: eclat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University of Pennsylvania law school. They bought a stake in a soft drink company, swapped their interest for a Cleveland chemical company, whose earnings they doubled in ten months. Then in 1955 they spotted Pittsburgh's ailing Fort Pitt beer company, and took it over with all the eclat of two cub scouts finding the Northwest Passage...
...number of those heterogeneous spectacles known as "the Whitney Annual" exhibition, Feininger would be represented by one of a small minority of delighting, consoling canvases. There would be present, inevitably, the proponents of the mode, the counter-mode, the eclat-du-jour, whatever it might be. There would be a mass of realists, as they are called, "magic" or otherwise, and a crowd of abstractionists, enchanted or unenchanted in like fashion. There would be the hawkers of social reform, the psychological brooders, those of the dark palettes, and so forth. In short, there would be a pot-pourri of most...
...forwards can score against any defense. All-Ivy Dartmouth goalie Randy Malin set up the first Harvard goal when he let a half-pass, half-shot from center forward John Hedreen roll between his legs. Left inside Tom Bernheim cut behind him, and shot into the open goal with eclat...
Vicente Escudero, sixtyish Spanish dancer (he is not sure about his age), returned to the U.S. with a troupe of young dancers for the first time in 20 years and rapped out his zapateados with such eclat that his show was held over for another two weeks...
Unlike "Harvey," which treated the supernatural as commonplace, "Bell, Book, and Candle" becomes self-conscious after the initial novelty wears off. The first two acts are amusing, partly because of the fine acting of Harrison and Miss Palmer, who twirls a cloak with a professional eclat. Jean Adair, Scott McKay, and Larry Gates give excellent supporting performances, and Raymond Sovey's set is atmospheric and handsome. With some careful pruning and revision, "Bell, Book, and Candle" has a good chance to make the grade on Broadway...