Word: mumness
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...interesting face." Yet Christ is currently much in evidence on British TV. Most startling example: a Passion play in which Christ is a young man with an Elvis Presley haircut, scuffed loafers and worn jeans. The Virgin Mary, plump and nondescript, was the British version of anybody's mum. Pontius Pilate was suave and courteously detached in a well-pressed lounge suit, nonchalantly lighted a cigarette after he signed Christ's death warrant. The Roman soldiers were simple types in British battle dress...
...reversing many Lachner policies. One new policy suited Lachner. Perlstein insisted on a severance contract providing Lachner with more than $3,000 a month through 1961, so long as he makes no criticisms of the Pabst firm or its officers during that time. So far, Lachner has kept prudently mum...
...starts innocently enough with five little English brothers and sisters, ranging from a few years to 16, going to France with their mother for a summer holiday. Mrs. Grey gets bitten by a horsefly and lands in the hospital, leaving the children to manage as best they can without Mum in a nearby pension on the Marne. For page upon page, everything hums along with the summery warmth of semifantasy. Greengage plums drop from the tree with juicy plops, the barges of the Marne glide noiselessly over the sunny water. The owner of the pension, Mademoiselle Zizi, has a rich...
Dance with Mum. Tommy starred in a film (The Tommy Steele Story), followed such stars as Marlene Dietrich and Noel Coward into London's swank Café de Paris, and told his fans how the posh life felt: "I'm the proudest kid in the world-I've danced with my mum in the Café de Paris...
...should have kept mum until success had been attained...