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...Leningrad's Evangelical Baptist Church, members of the cast worshiped with 2,000 Russians, mostly elderly women wrapped in shawls, before a big sign reading, GOD is LOVE. Wearing a platinum mink cape, Rhoda Boggs (Lily, the strawberry woman, in the show) sang Sweet Little Jesus Boy. Then, with deep religious feeling, the Negroes sang Christmas carols (Joy to the World) and spirituals (Every Time I Feel the Spirit). By the time they left, many of the Russians were weeping openly. Some said to Moses LaMarr, "God bless you. Merry Christmas. We love you." Not understanding a word, LaMarr...
Guys and Dolls (Samuel Goldwyn; M-G-M), as a Broadway musical, had all the vulgar swagger of a fink* with his mink at 4 a.m. on the crosstown, and a lot more salt than the lox in Lindy's. It was not really Runyon, just as Runyon was not really Broadway, but as a pinstriped fairy tale with garlic on its breath, it made an honest-to-Gotham hit, and it ran for three years...
...should make the public forget about her upper register. Vivian Elaine, the only big name held over from the Broadway cast, is just right as the blonde who celebrates her anniversary (14 years engaged) by catching a cold in her Bronxial tubes; and when she screeches Take Back Your Mink ("to from whence it came"), the evening is made. Frank Sinatra, as Nathan Detroit, not only acts as if he can't tell a Greek roll from a bagel; he sings as though his mouth were full of ravioli instead of gefullte fish. Stubby Kaye and B. S. Fully...
After a slam-bang 40,000-mile dash through 17 countries, Washington's Hostess-with-Mostes' Perle Mesta, still a little breathless in her mink stole and red velvet cloche, reported to a gathering of local newshens: "The Far East is sizzling." Of her near-fatal brush with rioting Vietnamese students in Saigon (TIME, Aug. 1), the lady who has often placated riotous guests with caviar and champagne confessed: "I had no idea what a mob was like. It was a miracle that I got out of Saigon with all my luggage." Biggest flop of her trip came...
...Argentine government opened a public "Display of the Wealth of the ex-President" at Perón's former official residence in Buenos Aires. On exhibit: his 16 cars and 240 motorcycles and motor-scooters, his late wife Eva's 400 dresses, 600 hats, assorted mink coats and jewelry appraised at $1,000,000. A sign on one necklace noted that it was worth a month's work by 3,500 Argentine laborers...