Word: homey
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...friend and said: "I'm tired of all the goddam writers around here. Why don't you give me a party with no writers, only beautiful women?" Late that Saturday night, after the party, Thomas showed up at his favorite tavern, the White Horse, a dark-paneled, homey bar on the western outskirts of Greenwich Village. His eyes were glazed, bloodshot, heavy-lidded...
...homey situations, Clark spends hours watching people at soda fountains, listening to women talk on buses, sitting in railroad stations ("The benches are just the right distance apart for watching people"). Much of the time he carries his Leica, snaps hundreds of pictures of street scenes, gestures, buildings and expressions, files them all away for the time when he will need to make a background authentic. Other ideas also come from watching Elise, his wife (and childhood sweetheart), their pretty, brunette daughter Joyce, 22, and nine-year-old son George Jr. All bear strong resemblances to their cartoon counterparts. Another...
...vivid, to sustain the early tone; and Moss Hart's script lends him a hand. Drama strides the scene: Is the son as mad as the father? Love (Maggie McNamara) walks in, to soothe his fevered brow. And just when the action has settled down to a nice homey drone of hysteria, almost as dull as Saturday night in Bedlam-bang! Brother John (John Derek) puts a bullet into Abraham Lincoln, and the public takes its revenge on Edwin with a full barrage-of vegetables...
Three pretty sisters (Doris Day, Dorothy Malone, Elisabeth Fraser) live a quiet, homey, small-town life with their father (Robert Keith) and aunt (Ethel Barrymore). Along comes a handsome, egotistical young composer (Gig Young) who sets everybody aflutter-but it is freckle-faced Doris who flips the most...
...weeks has been absolutely filthy. The present appearance of these rooms distracts from both your own enjoyment and also from the overall appearance of our house. Please do not eat your lunch in these rooms." Further evidence of the difficulty, and the effort to eliminate it, are the homey "definitions" in the Dudley Reporter...