Word: fanning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ancient Armenian folk songs-Come On-a went nowhere until Clooney's recording. Then it leaped from the ranks of the mere hits (any disk that sells 200,000 copies) into the enchanted circle of million-copy smashes. The song itself has keen likened by at least one fan magazine writer to the sounds a drunken Turk might make shouting down a well. The fact is that Clooney did as much for the song as the song...
...experts at the annual New York Baseball Writers' dinner in Manhattan enjoyed an entertainment dividend when Tallulah Bankhead, a dedicated Giant fan, appeared in Leo Durocher's uniform with a few ideas about changing the club. Her suggested improvements: uniforms by Hattie Carnegie, champagne in the water bucket, spring training on the Riviera, and "no more day games. No one comes to matinees anyway any more but women's clubs...
...definitive treatment for a rug. Seven years of earnest scholarship together with access to much fresh Dickens material have enabled Biographer Johnson to pick up every fact worth knowing about his hero. As biography, his book is complete, conscientious and fleetingly dramatic. As criticism, it is a hothanded fan letter posing as a balance sheet. Constant prose transfusions from Dickens keep the book alive, and for the rest, the author relies on a quality best characterized by Dickens himself as "enthoosemoosy...
...common people for pachinko" a professor solemnly decided, "seems to be a sort of resistance against the misadministration of the government . . . Their fingertips flipping steel balls are filled with some sense of anger." Sometimes the anger gets the better of pachinko players. Recently a 72-year-old woman fan lost her temper, smashed the glass of the machine, cut her self and bled to death...
More than a dozen parties fan across the fancy red horseshoe of the Assembly in dogmatic disorder. On the left sit the 97 Communists, the second largest bloc in the Assembly; they do not even believe in parliamentary democracy, and are interested only in killing it. Next sit 104 Socialists, the largest bloc. To the far right sit the 85 followers of embittered Charles de Gaulle (there were 29 more until they splintered off this year), who have long been under orders from the general to cooperate with no government until the French people vote themselves a new constitution. Between...