Word: flamingoes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...chief difficulty Alice found at first was in managing her flamingo . . . When she had got its head down, and was going to begin again, it was very provoking to find that the hedgehog had unrolled itself, and was in the act of crawling away...
Angry Joker? Dr. Tsiang suggested that the matter of whether he was officially present should be taken up at a special meeting. But Malik said that any meeting with Tsiang was a "parody." Then Malik (having less difficulty than Alice had had with her flamingo) tucked his papers under his arm and stalked out. He did not even wait to hear the translation of his speech into French and English. For all he knew (officially), a majority of the Council members would agree with him when they learned what...
Britain's Sir Alexander Cadogan was well entangled with his flamingo. His government has withdrawn recognition from Dr. Tsiang's government, and recognized that of Malik's Communist friends. Yet Sir Alexander voted for Tsiang and against Malik. The Briton spoke acidly of Malik's "valuable cooperation," meaning just the opposite. Sir Alexander said he would not repeat his remark of the previous meeting, that Malik's demand for Tsiang's ouster was "premature." By this Sir Alexander meant that he would repeat his remark...
...Flamingo Road (Warner) sends Joan Crawford traveling, somewhat wearily, down the well-beaten Hollywood trail of rags-to-riches. This time the trail begins in a small town when Joan ditches her job with a broken-down carnival and meets up romantically with Deputy Sheriff Zachary Scott. Next she gets a respectable job as a local waitress. Before she ends up in the town's biggest mansion, as the wife of the state's biggest politico (David Brian), she has to take a series of plot hurdles and heartbreaks. Biggest hurdle of all is Scott's vicious...
...Flamingo Road is not even paved with good intentions. Jerry-built out of odds & ends of cliches, it is an unashamed reworking of a formula that has been familiar to Joan Crawford's fans for a couple of decades. The tired old plot is in no way improved by Joan's new hairdo, which is blonde and unbecoming. Sydney Greenstreet, with his lashless, inscrutable stare, is no whit different from what he has been in a dozen similar roles. As usual, he gets the dirtiest end of the dialogue. Sample, as Joan pulls...