Word: heaping
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...later asked him what he thought of The Cigarette Girl, he suavely declared: "It was nostalgic." The critics were not so diplomatic. "Unspeakable .drivel," "said Robert Muller in the Daily Mail. Said the Daily Express' Herbert Kretzmer: "The Cigarette Girl quickly qualified as the most dismal and abysmal heap of rubbish to be mounted in London-in the sacred name of enterainment-in living memory." The play was a smoked-out butt after six performances, and Playwright Home looked down in anger. "Critics," he said with icy disdain, "attack anything they think comes from the Establishment...
...courts have completed trial and rendered a verdict. (The knowledge that the University has administered a penalty, the Deans fear, might unfavorably prejudice the student's case in court.) Do not take false assurance from the delay, however; the University is merely biding its time before it rises to heap coals upon the fire...
...seen his family for more than a year, and the group portrait was done to celebrate the reunion. Copley's style had lost its stiffness in Italy, but it is the tenderness of mood that makes the picture. A lesser artist might have produced a heap of sentimentality; Copley's portrait is one of deep and wholesome affection...
...King-Anderson, most House members are very willing to let it rest in Ways and Means. As for President Kennedy, he feels he can hardly lose, no matter what happens. If the bill passes the House, he can claim a great victory. If it does not, he intends to heap all the blame on the Republicans, even though he has a lopsided Democratic majority. Last week, in an all-out effort to make the nation aware of its efforts, the Administration gave the A.M.A. a few lessons in the art of rough and tumble propaganda...
Jules and Jim. Two young men and a girl love, laugh and write poetry in Paris 50 years ago, in a film that is a clutter of inconsequence transformed by imagination as a trash heap is transformed by moonlight...