Word: looming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...just that. Typed again as a lazy, breezy dodger of responsibility, Crosby this time is a famous Broadway lyricist-composer who just won't settle down to work on Producer Charles Coburn's new show. Coburn hires prim Secretary Nancy Olson to discipline Bing. Love blooms, misunderstandings loom, Crosby croons, and the show goes on (with guest stars including Groucho Marx, Dorothy Kirsten and Peggy Lee). The general effect, devoid of zest or originality, is more like a radio variety show than a movie. Hardened Crosby fans will probably like it, but others might do well to season...
...Bosom of the Masses. Critics, carping or constructive, loom very small, however, in Capp's public. Millions feel that he can do no wrong. He has not only been clutched to the bosom of the masses but has been nominated as a genius by fragments of the intelligentsia. Britain's Princess Elizabeth is a "slobbering" Abner fan; so are Novelist John Steinbeck, Comedian Harpo Marx, Lawyer Morris Ernst and NSRB Boss W. Stuart Symington...
...most people, the vast geometry of the pyramids and the Great Sphinx's weather-blunted face are all that loom above the mist surrounding Egyptian art. For those who cared to look deeper, U.S. bookstores last week were peddling a thin volume of brilliant photographs titled Egyptian Art (Golden Griffin; $8). Along with its pictures, the book boasted a running commentary by Etienne Drioton, a French priest and scholar who is also director of the Cairo Museum's Department of Egyptian Antiques...
Already CCC had stored up enough wheat and corn (516,242,531 bushels) to fill a freight train stretching 11,679 miles -almost halfway around the world at the equator, enough cotton (3,600,000 bales) to loom 90 million bedsheets. In storage it had all the dried eggs (88 million lbs.) that U.S. bakers would need for the next eight years, enough butter (99 million lbs.) for the baking of 495 million cakes, and enough powdered milk (316 million lbs.) to irrigate the Wheaties of all New York City's schoolchildren for several years to come. There were...