Word: goo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only sensitive acting by Deborah and Cary saves this saccharine trifle from suffocating in its sentimental wrappings. Affair would be much more easily remembered if it minded its own affair, let the goo...
Proudest Boast. Curley's book is sprayed with political maxims (see box) which, however amoral, surest an expert deeply fascinated by a great art. He scarcely bothers to deny the charges of corruption that soiled virtually his whole career. For the "Goo-Goo" (good government) forces he has sublime contempt: "There were the pitiable, simpering halfwits who went about nudging people in the side, pouring the devil knows what poison in their ears, and the brethren of hamlet and village, who had never seen Curley, gazed upon his countenance on posters that portrayed a baleful-eyed monster glaring...
...James (From Here to Eternity) Jones, 33, and his luscious, platinum-tressed bride, Gloria Mosolino, 29, whose previous claim to fame was a brief stand-inship for Cinemactress Marilyn Monroe. Before going to Manhattan last week to grapple with his publisher, Jones discoursed long and freely about his latest goo-plus-page opus, Some Came Running, due for autumn publication. "The book," crowed Jones, "is 300,000 words longer than Eternity. The last six months I lived on gin and Miltown while finishing it. It's not only longer than War and Peace, but it has more narrative pull...
...group includes two daughters, the elder of whom understandably enough wants to leave home, and the younger who does so by marrying a Mexican. The hard, bright manner of Elaine Stritch in the role of the elder daughter provided the only relief throughout an evening otherwise drowned in sentimental goo. As for the performances of Patricia Bosworth, the second Muldoon offspring, and Gerald Sarracini, the Mexican bridegroom, they are workmanlike but nothing more...
...Fleetwood Malenkov gurgled "Goo goo" at a 13-month-old baby lying in a crib, identified a chicken in a picture book for the baby's four-year-old sister with the comment, "Chick-chick-chick." Crossing into Scotland, Malenkov joined arms with a group of workmen at the modest Ayrshire cottage where Poet Bobbie Burns was born, and sang Auld Lang Syne in a rosy-red mist of good-fellowship. "Hip hip," cried one of the workmen, and the others chimed in, "Hooray...