Word: homeyness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sound of her own voice falling like a cleaver on her tremble-chinned daughter (Elizabeth Ross), who peeps in terror from a vine-enclosed summerhouse across the garden. Even marriage to a Saroyanesque young man (Logan Ramsey) fails to save the daughter, for she feverishly builds a homey womb away from home in a trellised corner booth of her husband's bar. The play's uncertain note of affirmation is sounded when Elizabeth finally flees to St. Louis with her husband, rejecting her mother's hysterical offer of a newer, better and even more insulated garden house...
...house. At a rare homecoming, his dog nips at his heels, his wife sings Remember Me, and he finds that his son has ground up his favorite slippers in the Disposall, whereupon he decides to stay home more often and become reacquainted with his family. This homey theme is developed with lighthearted good humor and is ably performed by Thomas and his TV wife, Jean Hagen. Sponsors: Speidel Co. and the American Tobacco...
Hollywood, a glittering city of outsize swimming pools and pink Cadillacs, has its homey side, too. It has a favorite corner drugstore, called Schwab's. For years Schwab's has been a hangout for movie stars, hangers-on and Coke-stretchers, who sit at the soda fountain sipping their drinks, waiting for miracles, or just thumbing the movie magazines borrowed from the magazine rack. At Schwab's, Columnist Sidney Skolsky receives mail, phone calls and tips. With Skolsky's syndicated help, Schwab's has become the best-known corner drugstore...
...spreading an unfounded rumor: Roosevelt's pet Scottie, Fala, had been left behind during a presidential tour of the Aleutians, and a destroyer had been dispatched 1,000 miles just to bring the dog home. For F.D.R., this was a golden opportunity to add a homey touch to his famed Teamsters' Union address: "Republican leaders have not been content with attacks on me, or my wife, or on my sons . . . They now include my little dog Fala...
...jacket blurb, but at 27, after brief careers as a sailor, private tutor and circus hand, Hinde has put together an expert novel. His storytelling is done in meticulously understated style, but beneath its bland surface, Mr. Nicholas is relentless in its exploration of a quiet, homey little English hell...