Word: flea
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...Paris' Flea Market, a six-inch Gallé vase, which only a year or two ago would have sold for $30 or less, recently brought $130, sending antique dealers scurrying to their basements in search of other long-discarded bric-a-brac. In Britain, where the revival has fired popular fancy, William Morris prints are the current fashion fabric hit. Munich's taste-setting decorator store, Die Einrichtung, recently supplemented its modern pieces with settees, rosewood chests, chairs, shelves and ceramics whose curvaceous shape and exotic flavor display kinship with the tenets of Henry van de Velde, Belgian...
DANCE CRAZE (Capitol) is a history seminar, with laconic directions on the jacket for twelve dances ranging from the waltz (played by Guy Lombardo) to the black bottom (Pee Wee Hunt), the calypso (Lord Flea), the tango (Nelson Riddle), and the creep (Stan Kenton). Giving instructions for the Charleston was too difficult and the jacket writer gave up, suggesting, Ask your mother...
SQUARE DANCES (MacGregor). Red River Valley, Solomon Levi, Oh Johnny, Turkey in the Straw, Red Wing and other classics with Fenton ("Jonesy") Jones as the caller. Jonesy's instructions are melodious and comparatively easy to follow, intended for initiates into these arcane rites, e.g., "Box the flea," and "Allemande left with a high tuck a shaw/Take a little bow with your mother...
...ambulance that's taking him to the hospital have four flat tires and run into a brick wall that's holding nuclear warheads and TNT. And if he should survive that, let him be thrown into a patch of wild dogs that's suffering from flea-itis and may he scratch himself insane. When he gets to the hospital, let the doctor be a junkie with a gorilla on his back and an orangoutang in his room. Let the hospital catch on fire, and every fire hydrant from Nova Scotia to wherever he was born be froze...
...Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, and then somebody apparently told him how to succeed in pictures without really trying: never put the part before the Morse. Up to a point the formula works. But what the heck. Being a success in this picture is like being head flea on a dead...