Word: icing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Delhi National Stadium bulged last week with Indian families in traditional saris and dhotis, but that was as far as tradition went. As the stage lights snapped on to illuminate a blindingly white rectangle of ice-50 ft. wide and 100 ft. long-bedazzled spectators found themselves plunk in the middle of a late model U.S. ice show. A line of leggy chorus girls jazzed across the frozen stage, acrobats jumped, buffoons rocked, swayed and tumbled...
Producer of the show: Holiday on Ice Inc., a Minneapolis outfit which has four companies touring all over the world (one in the U.S.). Indians, who had never seen a major ice show in their country before, fell for it like novices on their first pair of single-runners. Even the anti-U.S. Shanker's Weekly called it "stupendous," argued that "good American show business is worth more than guns and butter." Delhi's citizens jammed the 8,000-seat theater nightly. Among the spectators: Prime Minister Nehru...
...Harry, especially Sam's wife with the golden fuzz on her arms? And what about that deal I was going to push through with George, my own class-mate? How can I reach him any more, what with no way to break the ice? And what about all the other contacts I planned on making...
...bulletin board are evidences of Eli pomposity and self-esteem from the Yale Daily News, such as, "Bullpup Gridders: Small But Tough," and "Bullpups Trample Dartmouth, 16-6, Posting Third Consecutive Victory." A short note taped on one of the lockers reads, "Yale has ordered tubs in which to ice refreshments to celebrate their victory...
...mental isolation booth that Manhattan Methodman Lee Strasberg prescribed for "getting into" a part (hers: a uke-playing songbird of the '20s). Marilyn ordered gawkers kicked off the set, banned cussing crewmen, played love scenes with Leading Man Tony Curtis as if enclosed in a cake of ice. It was tough on Curtis, a simpler type who can still exclaim: "Gee, Marilyn Monroe makin' love to me!" Marilyn also huffily rebuffed Producer-Director Billy Wilder's smallest advice ("You'll make me forget how I'm going to do this scene"). A mild man, Wilder...