Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Coward's greatest single gift has not been writing or composing, not acting or directing, but projecting a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and chic, pose and poise. He had it as a newcomer of 25, when he walked into a fashionable party where all but...
The public personality that is built on this sense of style is Coward's one great creation, looming behind all his smaller ones and investing them with special effervescence. This is what John Osborne meant when he said that Coward "is his own invention and contribution to this century...
The time capsule recording the rot of American TV might well include the tape of the Dec. 17 Tonight show. Within that dispiriting 90-minute reel were a cough-medicine commercial, Phyllis Diller's laugh, and the on-the-air wedding of Tiny Tim, the fortyish boy soprano, to...
The heavily pressagented event had been arranged by aides of the singer, NBC, and Johnny Carson's staff, which gleefully provided the vaguely Louis XVI set and wardrobe. To build ratings, the ceremony was delayed through an insufferable hour with Diller and Singer Florence Henderson. The rites were relatively...
Then grotesquely, the groom escorted his bride to the familiar Tonight guest couch. Johnny, looking mighty puffed up in his tuxedo, greeted them from behind his accustomed desk. There followed a commercial and a champagne toast (the couple drank milk and honey). Tiny serenaded his bride and read plugs for...