Word: loping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Siren of Atlantis (United Artists) may bring a moment of comfort to romantics who believe in the lost continent of Atlantis. It seems that the continent can be found this year somewhere near the Sahara Desert, within easy camel lope of a Foreign Legion post. Atlantis turns out to be populated by a carefree tribe whose principal activities are beating the tom-tom, drinking large quantities of a potent juice called arrack, and ogling the dancing girls. In their more solemn moments, they sometimes pause to embalm unwelcome visitors in molten gold...
...life he had scribbled poor verses and unsuccessful plays (he was a little envious of the then famous and incredibly fecund playwright, Lope de Vega). But in Quixote, Cervantes knew that he had written a bestseller. He predicted, in jest, a sale of 30,000,000 copies (just about it). Biographer Bell, with other critics, observes that this bland and spacious masterpiece is less simple than it seems. More than a satire on medieval romances, which were the soap operas of Cervantes' age, it leads even the earthy Sancho Panza into a subtly dizzying identification of reality and dream...
...which unite Spaniards and Argentines. It also involved some fancy costuming. It was the hottest day of the year when Evita got the diamond-encrusted Grand Cross of Isabel la Católica from Dictator Franco; but she wore a full-length mink cape. At the special performance of Lope de Vega's classic Spanish drama, Fuente Ovejuna in the Teatro Español, Evita turned up in a long cape of ostrich feathers. At the bullfight, which she held up half an hour by arriving late (the opening was never delayed for Alfonso XIII), Evita again bugged Spanish...
Fortnight ago Hägg's rabbit arrived in Manhattan, a lanky fellow with lean, muscular legs, a squirrel's face and an antelope's lope. Like most Swedish trackmen he was in sad need of a haircut. He knew a little English but said he had already learned the "Indian language" (uh-uh; uh-huh; huh). He knew all about U.S. jazz (he plays the piano, violin and banjo by ear). In Manhattan, Strand listened to Swingdom's blind piano player Art Tatum, his favorite, then went off reluctantly to California. But the Swedish speedster...
...with remarkable ease. He still dresses with a touch of the dandy. In his tie, he usually wears a pearl stick pin. A silk handkerchief always cascades from his breast pocket. Usually he gets to his office about 9:30 a.m., goes through his business day in a lope. In winter, he drives from his 14-room apartment on Fifth Avenue; in summer he takes the train into Manhattan's Pennsylvania Station from his 25 acres near Great Neck, L.I., rides the subway to his office...