Word: gingering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...frilled and beflowered needs to be stylish. Jack Cole's pictorial dances, Oliver Smith's airy sets. Miles White's gorgeous costumes give it style. If it has almost no Broadway snap, it has even less Broadway brassiness. If this is a Jamaica with little ginger and no rum, those, after all, are largely its exports. From at least a musicomedy standpoint, Lena Horne, gay colors, winning tunes-and even shiftless lie-in-the-sun librettos-are its tourist attractions...
...British public that his party is no longer wildly socialistic-and hoping that the party's left wing would not overhear him and prove him wrong. The leftist followers of Aneurin Bevan suspect Gaitskell of trying to make Labor "not a Socialist Party at all but a mere ginger group for making capitalism work more efficiently and humanely." Last week, after much labor, the party brought forth a manifesto on the subject, which the Economist promptly dubbed "Mouse with a Leer...
...general company (Dan Dailey, Ginger Rogers, Barbara Rush) is quite pleasant, and Tony Randall in his best scene provides a hilarious footnote to an era in which the lounge lizard has been replaced by the couch cowboy...
...real situations and natural reactions. David Niven is marvelously and hilariously restrained as the psychoanalyst who is not quite so tolerant of human inconsistencies when he discovers that his own fiancee has had a very interesting past. Barbara Rush plays his slightly tarnished True Love with typical feminine capriciousness. Ginger Rogers is very funny indeed as the wife who regularly pours out her troubles to her psychoanalyst, and she is more than matched by Dan Dailey's portrayal of her actor-husband. Tony Randall clowns through the film with just the right amount of buffoonery as a slightly screwy patient...
...still sat there catching flies, and finally she handed me her half-finished drink. "You poor thing, you've been chasing me around all afternoon. You need this." I gratefully drained her glass--it was bourbon and ginger...