Word: mothing
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...only hope that this is the reason Kilty allowed a ten-year-old child to play the role of Moth. Don Armado's precocious page. As Moth is a role comparable to Puck in A Midsummer's Night's Dream, it is not something one farms out to a tyro. Appearing in the same scene with a child is the trial death; an actor is either upstaged or dragged down. Though one hates to badmouth someone who doesn'v yet have a complete set of teeth, Jason Harvey is really bad. He decants iambic as if he had taken elocution...
...real thing. Boyd is fine as long as he stays in New York City. In the South his story tends to unravel, and the picaresque incidents verge on cartoons. There are, however, some sharp observations of Dixie speech ("Each gnat she cooked me a fan dinner") and fauna ("a moth the size of a wren"), and an impudent send-up of atrium-style hotels, a high-rise in Atlanta where the guests go from check- in to elevator via canoe...
Gloria Sr. was 19 when she gave birth in 1924; less than two years later, Little Gloria's father, Reggie Vanderbilt, died of inadequacy and excess, burned out at 44. Mama, a society beauty with the social conscience of a moth, fluttered from Europe to the U.S. and back again. Little Gloria became a piece of human luggage, shuttled from country places to castles, possessed by magical thoughts: "If I stayed still enough, the motor would start. If I held my breath, the front door would not open . . . I made a bargain with myself not to cry, and then...
Paul M. Connor of the company's Health, Safety and Toxicology Department said that napthalene, the main ingredient in moth balls, did not cause cancer and that the dump contained a small enough quantity of the chemical so that the only adverse effect might be the odor...
...South, you don't walk into a bar alone-you just wouldn't be a lady in my mother's opinion." Margaret's bar is not a pickup place. It's more a sort of warm hearth. "I was drawn in here as a moth to a flame as soon as I heard Malagueña," says David, a hotel guest from Maryland. He sings Hava Nagila and applauds as Margaret moves into a Chopin polonaise...