Word: glugging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...casual, anything-for-a-laugh approach can only confuse his less-experienced students. He never uses a measuring cup and knocks Fanny Farmer for her chemistry-class precision. But how are his viewers going to know that a Kerr "short slurp" equals one fluid ounce or that "one glug" means one and a half? Julia Child, appalled by his use of canned asparagus and packaged ham slices, writes his program off as "a desecration of fine cooking." He is producing "a personality show or a ladies' show," she says. "He's a tall, handsome, well-proportioned young...
...this Off-Broadway import from England, the setting is a boiler room, and virtually the only prop is the boiler. This behemoth is a triumph of mechanical indigestion, hiccuping, squealing, glug-glugging, roaring, and occasionally subsiding with a grandiose belch. Anyone who thinks the machine will subdue the man is in for a head-spin. No machine, man, or woman can tame Valentine Brose. When he applies for the boilerman job, he hopes the hours will permit him to collect his unemployment checks from a previous job. During the interview with Works Manager Price (Dana Elcar) he exudes balmy assurance...
...underestimates his audience and is overly concerned with propagandizing. So he loads down his ship with too many people, steers it through a mire o humanitarian cliches, and, glug, it sinks...
With Lemmon on deck, Ship will surely enjoy favorable gales of laughter; without him it would undoubtedly have sunk without a glug in the neighborhood "tanks." Based on a magazine piece by Marion (See Here, Private Hargrove) Hargrove and Herb Carlson, the film is a run-of-the-main, sailor-suit farce about a peacetime yachtsman (Lemmon) who joins the Navy during World War II, and to his horror is promptly assigned to command what's known in sailor talk as a "baldheaded schooner." His mission: sail across about 1,000 nautical miles of Jap-infested ocean...