Word: innuendo
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TIME, as ever, ready with innuendo and sarcasm, could only find ridicule and malice to report what should have been a happy augury for the future of our Empire...
John Ashbery, no stranger to the Advocate's pages, has turned his ever-competent hand to prose this month. The result is a dream-like story of innuendo, that flits from the amusing to the near-terrifying. "Fete Galante" has as its scene a ball given by an old man on his birthday. "At midnight everyone unmasks!" announces the old man's trusty retainer, but no one is wearing a mask. The true "meaning" of that incident, or of the whole piece, is elusive, but the story is certainly one of aimlessness and frustration; it is objective, succeeding largely because...
...Viewed apart from Clark and the situation comedy he provokes, "Sweethearts" is not worth the few tunes that motivate its singers. All too often the usual operetta tomfoolery involving disguised counts and misplaced husbands is a little hard to stomach. Clark, however, patches things up nicely by injecting enough innuendo and thigh-gazing into the proceedings to make even the merry widow drop her mask. Snatching at apron strings and pinching fannies, Bobby Clark makes no bones about his slapstic; but the very fact that he enjoys himself wins over the audience...
...every scene and in places performs very well (or very badly, depending on your moral inclinations.) Her emotional abandon and her variety of facial expressions make the captions largely unnecessary, and the translation are quite idiomatic, but at the times when captions were essential for unscrambling French blasphemy or innuendo, they were succinctly reduced to "! ! !" Expressive, but not very lucid...
...last twelve years at Sarah Lawrence College. Russian-born Marya Zaturenska won the Pulitzer Prize in 1938 for her book of poems, Cold Morning Sky. The Mandarin prose of the Gregorys sometimes gets out of hand, running to dreamy convolutions, their urbanity sometimes permits open enjoyment of an innuendo none too polite; their estimates of one or two poets, notably John Gould Fletcher, are horrifyingly kind, and of one or two others, notably Laura Riding, apparently insensible. But in the main, the chapters of this book are civilized, clear, usefully illustrated and deeply meditated...