Word: herring
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...course. What do you think of a three-piece, charcoal brown herring-bone...
Hans Keller is a London music critic whose aim is to stop most talk about music. This apparently self-destructive ambition is prompted by Keller's belief that emotions slip through the loom of language like herring through a cargo net. Keller's solution: analysis by music instead of by words. His criticism of Mozart's String Quartet in D Minor (K. 421) broadcast last week from Hamburg, convincingly demonstrated that a few snatches of music, pointedly juxtaposed, can make a sharper comment on a composition than a column of critical prose...
...strewn trail blazed by Trevor Howard, a masterful international dope smuggler, for the guidance of Victor Mature, a dopey sleuth inexplicably praised by his Narcotics Division chief as "the best man we've got." To make himself even easier to follow, Howard drags along with him a red herring called Anita Ekberg. And he goes on a real Crook's Tour-from Manhattan to a kaleidoscopic blur of bars, boudoirs and bawdy hotels in London, Rome, Naples and Athens-all genuine-location stuff, reeled off at such a frenzied pace that it rouses longings for the good...
...Friendly Climate. Lawyer Hiss wildly overstates the climate against him. The fact was that much of official Washington was solidly and politically on the side of Democrat Hiss at the time that Chambers challenged him. President Harry Truman called the hearings before the Republican-controlled House Committee a "red herring"; Secretary of State Dean Acheson declared he would "not turn my back on Alger Hiss...
...Herring Gull eggs are edible," said the advisor, "but they aren't particularly delicious. Tell them about the Eiders...