Word: gab
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Louis Cowan pulled it off the air after eleven weeks, overhauled it, then gave it a splashless launching all over again on radio. From week to week such sophisticated raconteurs as Bennett Cerf, Marc Connelly, Abe Burrows, Steve Allen and Sam Levenson join Fadiman for the kind of lively gab that has not been heard on radio since the old days of Information Please. Item: Punster Cerf's line about Ireland's Poet George ("A E") Russell and an angry moment when "A E's Irish rose." The next step, in the normal course of events...
...sunshine, a creator of gladness and master of myself. I have been a successful champion wrestler because I'm brave as a lion, strong as a mule, tough as a pine knot and sharp as a razor." He added: "I have the gift of gab...
...Cara dies from an overdose of sedative. Shattered with grief and remorse, Julie leaves the school. Olivia is left to mend her life as best she can. The only serious fault in the picture is its failure to cut the gab at the end and leave the audience to make what it will of the situation. Instead, the last few scenes shift from one foot to another like guests who cannot bear to leave until they have hit on a clever exit line...
...wanted Russia included as a neutral, and this Dean would not have. Russia would be "a back-seat driver constantly telling everyone where to go, how to get there, what turn to take . . . We can't have the Soviet Union there like the proverbial mother-in-law, all gab and no responsibility...
Girls in the Night has an intermittent hard look and some fast gab. It hints at the violence of its theme in several harsh sequences and in the performance of Don Gordon as a street fighter. But only rarely does the real tawdriness of its subject come across. With its trumped-up melodrama, the movie is just another undernourished thriller about underprivileged youngsters...