Word: flavors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...appreciate the richest flavor of Yale history," the story said, "if is best to catch Mr. Lehman (an administrative official) not in the polished dignity of his office, but over a table in Mery...
...reported ducal $75,000 a year, maybe more, if a hoped-for 150 stations buy his transcribed show). As a jockey, the Duke promised to be impressive: his jazz know-how gave his between-platter comments a fine mood indigo. One record, he decided, had a "pear ice cream" flavor; Songstress Sarah Vaughn was "serpentine and opalesque"; Crooner Vic Damone "caressed with satin and gave a back porch intimacy...
Died. Count Antal Sigray, 68, longtime campaigner for the restoration of the Habsburg monarchy, wartime concentration camp prisoner of the Nazis; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan. Jailed briefly in 1921 after a Graustarkian attempt to restore Emperor Charles to the throne, the count preserved the opera bouffe flavor of the episode by challenging government leaders who had "slandered" him while he was in prison (no one accepted the challenge...
Clever, opium-puffing Producer Cocteau (his fans call him "the cleverest man alive") has allowed his pipe dreams only a soupcon of surrealist-Freudian flavor. The surreal touch is applied to several scenes with absolute poetic Tightness: by retarding to slow motion Beauty's terror-struck sprint through the Beast's castle, Cocteau conveys every decibel of the shriek she cannot release. There is also plenty of surreal wit: the Beast's eyes, ears, nose and fingernails fume when the fires of lust blaze up in him; and Beauty's tears turn to diamonds...
Gallegos' speeches had a New Deal flavor; he advocated state-aided economic development, warned against Falangism. When charges of "atheism" and "ungodliness" were hurled against him and his party, he countered by denouncing Venezuela's Jesuits as "foreign representatives of France," accused Caldera's party of claiming to be "the instrument of a divine miracle." But Gallegos promised to respect all religion, and in the end the religious issue seemed to have affected the election outcome not at all. The important thing to Venezuelans was that democracy was finally having its day and that Gallegos seemed able...