Word: finer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cards, and all the best lines, stacked in his favor. Red-haired Gwen Verdon, as a witch Applegate imports from 'Chicago, sings a little and dances a lot. If you've heard "Whatever Lola Wants," you may have dismissed it is standard juke-box gruel. The meal may seem finer after you watch Miss Verdon grinding it. She also takes part in a prolonged number called "Musical Chairs," which has no end of possibilities and no beginning of realizing them. That dance ends the first act and an obvious song about baseball training rules opend the second. Otherwise the material...
...Chicago, British-educated Herman Finer, a pixy-like professor of social science, had an instantaneous love affair with TV. A veteran of the University of Chicago Round Table radio show, Finer, 57, a onetime welterweight at the University of London, has just done a series of twelve solo TV shows devoted to "Government and Human Nature." As high-strung as any star, Finer goes on the air fortified by repeated cups of coffee and doses of cough syrup, gives a vibrant performance (a fan describes him as "a real ancient George Gobel type"). After the show he needs...
Competing with Dagmar. Finer loves everything about TV except the time required to prepare a 30-minute talk: "I can understand how these fellows like Milton Berle feel. The tension is awful. If you've got any conscience at all about doing a decent job, you're undergoing an ordeal." Finer warns teachers about to enter TV not to think of the relatively few minutes they will be in front of the camera, but of the hours and days necessary to get ready: "And there's something else they must learn. Instead of working to your main...
Ulen, on his part, does not know of a finer man than Brooks. "He's no hot-shot rah-rah guy--he's a solid, patient, teaching coach. There isn't a better man to take over this varsity when the retirement rules get me. Bill's a gentleman, and he knows hs onions...
...host of fine paintings, he has also left it hugging the monstrous notion that (in Shaw's words) "the true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living ... if only the sacrifice of them enable him to ... paint a finer picture...