Word: monolog
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...more attractive than was Hope Williams on the stage. Robert Ames grins and frowns as Johnny Case. The whimsicality of Edward Everett Horton, impersonating Linda's friend Nick Potter, sometimes threatens to grow stubborn, but he finds the proper gestures for Playwright Barry's famed success-story monolog, "How I Invented the Bottle...
...detail. When the base-ship went back to warmer water, the camp on the ice-desert became a little city. You see the city live its life-dealing with whales, ice deserts, seals, penguins, wireless communications. The trip over the Pole itself is exciting in spite of a dreary monolog of explanatory comments by Floyd Gibbons, inserted in the U. S. Only silly shot: the opening sequence, with Byrd in a starched white uniform posed at his wheel, to explain why he went South. Epic shots: a school of killer whales lunging up for air; the ice-clad City...
...throne room of the Vatican, Mr. Levine, well rehearsed, kissed the Pope's ring. He listened mutely while His Holiness carried on a polite monolog, later confided: "I was so flabbergasted, I couldn't say a thing." It was the first time a U. S. citizen had ever been received in the throne room. At the close of the interview, the Pope blessed Mr. Levine, his family, his future flights...
...Newton is master of a conversational mode of address that would have delighted his learned and loquacious hero, Dr. Samuel Johnson. His discourse upon the typographical history of the Bible is no more pedantic than his bubbling monolog on Gilbert and Sullivan (in which it occurs to him that "we get lots of our ideas of government from comic operas and then take ourselves as seriously as Sitting Bull"). From "The Ghost of Gough Street" and "Shakespeare and the Old Vic" one gets a faintly disturbing impression of anglomania, soon dispelled by the mordant judgments of "Are Comparisons Odious...
...national issues: upon Art, Literature, even Manhattan Architecture and the conversation of shopgirls in subway trains as suggestive of the cycle through which this and other countries were passing. In the writing, there was a rich personal flavor, informal yet dignified, unhurried but never verbose. Each issue was a monolog by an unprejudiced ruminative man who was as likely to weave into his discourse some bright strand of slang as some fibrous or silken or homespun thread from Montaigne, La Rochefoucauld, Mark Rutherford, Andrew Marvell...