Word: falutin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...what might be called "in-house humor," Man Without a Star has a roll-muh-own greasiness and good warm-leather reek about it that is rare in Hollywood westerns. The rootin', tootin' (with Claire Trevor as the whirly-girly) and shootin' are unusually low-falutin. There is one long shot of a man being dragged by a horse through enough barbed wire fence to justify the use of Technicolor in this picture...
...said in the Aug. 2 Cinema review of Rear Window that Grace Kelly has "a sort of U.H.F. sex that not everybody will be able to hear." What does the abbreviation stand for ... Upper High Falutin...
...passionate flame. A singlehearted ecstasy. And now it has happened . . . everything has come alive, every moment a shooting star." And Han, somewhat more composed: "Whatever happens now, I cannot be too sad. Sadness is so ungrateful when this has been given." There are too many pages of such high-falutin exchanges, which were undoubtedly not so much recalled as reshaped (or even invented) during tranquillity. Author Suyin does better when she sets out to describe the Hong Kong of 1949 and 1950, its unwieldy population swelled each week by thousands of refugees escaping from the Communists. She can make...
When it began, five years ago, the BBC's Third Programme was damned with faint praise or jeered at as a "pretentious and high falutin' present for the esthete and the intellectual snob." Last week, on its fifth anniversary, the robustly highbrow Third found the critical climate a good deal more cordial. Seated before a microphone in a BBC subbasement studio, Controller Harman Grisewood noted: "Birthday greetings do not usually take the form of congratulations at having survived. Yet. . . five years are long enough for the programme to have died a natural death if it were not wanted...
Most of the first-nighters had come prepared to endure verse, and high falutin verse; but few had been prepared to hear anything quite like this. With a mixture of pleasure and outrage, the audience began to realize that this fellow Fry was breaking all the rules. He was not only pursuing the chancy and self-conscious enterprise of writing verse for the stage; he was writing verse which, like a drink on a hot day or a kiss on a cold night, gave pleasure and satisfaction. That other rule-breaker, T.S. Eliot, had written a magnificent and entertaining verse...