Word: fizz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ancestor of Trio, Flesh and Fantasy is a splice of three separate stories. Trio, however, is a trilogy, Flesh and Fantasy an anthology. The only things these three tales have in common are a supernatural fizz and heavy-handed direction. Director Julien Duvivier (Un Carnet du Bal, Tales of Manhattan) pioneered the splicing art, but he keeps fantasy firmly earthbound in this 1943 effort. Granted, the writing is usually abominable ("Remember the boatman's song at twilight at Amalfi, the scent of orange blossoms on the road to Damascus," etc., etc.), but the absence of a light touch accentuates triteness...
...fizz back in is effervescent Eric Hooper, 60. Trained as a botanist, Hooper "wandered about for a time," met Department Store Magnate Frederick James Marquis, now Lord Woolton, and went to work for him without knowing what business Woolton was in. "When I showed up and found it was a shop," says Hooper, "I was absolutely horrified...
These playlets let the two stars caper at will, with Rex Harrison providing some brilliant bits while Lilli Palmer exerts her lure in all wigs and weathers. If Ustinov's talent wobbles, his tone remains fixed: as both satire and fantasy, the play is always fizz and never highfalutin...
Double-Threat Man.Unquestionably, the fizz in Miller High Life is Fred Miller. A tall (6 ft.), lean, handsome man who was once an All-America tackle and football captain at Notre Dame, Miller keeps his muscles trim at handball and tennis, hunts and fishes with the oldest of his eight children, pilots his own Grumman Widgeon amphibian around the U.S. Besides running the brewery, Miller has energy left to run scores of outside activities. He is president of the Milwaukee Brewers Association, runs public relations for the U.S. Brewers Foundation, is a director of the Milwaukee County Society for Mental...
...well-to-do well-wishers. Nowadays the head of the fund-raising committee is Mrs. Ellen Stevenson, ex-wife of Adlai Stevenson, herself an occasional contributor to Poetry. But over the years, editors have been confronted with another problem even graver: somewhere along the line, U.S. poetry ceased to fizz...