Word: omeleteer
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...secure the five-piece foam latex mask that had been modeled on Sir Joshua Reynolds' celebrated portrait of Johnson. Ustinov joked that it was made of marzipan, and "the wonderful thing is you can eat it after the show." Actually, he confessed later, "it smelled like a rancid omelet." The makeup nicely underscored Boswell's own assertion: "I will not make my tiger a cat to please anybody." The old tiger was even more eloquent. In a swipe at the crusty Scottish father of Boswell (Kenneth Haigh) he roared: "Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel!" After...
...brought high spirits to her varied roles of playwright (King of Hearts), free-lance writer, TV guest, wife (of New York Herald Tribune Drama Critic Walter Kerr). Laboring in the literary hell's kitchen of humor, Author Kerr, 33, knows that one cannot make a comic omelet without laying a few eggs. She lays a few in Daisies, but mostly she cooks with laughing gas. On the menu...
...Life, One Kopeck), autobiographer (I Write as I Please), longtime (1921-34) No. 1 Timesman in Russia and No. 1 Russian apologist in the U.S. (when Stalin doomed some 3,000,000 peasants to death from starvation by withholding grain, Duranty wrote: "You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs"); of a stomach ailment; in the Orlando, Fla. hospital where he last week married his second wife, Anna Enwright, widow of a Florida judge. Duranty became well acquainted with the Kremlin oligarchy (said he: "Moscow stands for progress"; said Stalin: "You have done a good job of reporting...
...election): "I don't think the states are doing a very good job with the things they have-education, mental health and a multitude of other things." Connecticut's Democratic Governor Abraham Ribicoff was even more typical. Said Ribicoff: "It's like taking an omelet and trying to put it back in the eggshells. It's too late for that...
...with a mere shrug or grunt or monosyllable, he can be a delight. But oftener he struggles, like a boxer, to outpoint his material, or like a magician, to make it vanish; and oftenest, he is mowed down by it. The evening is as unhappy a mixture as an omelet would be made with one new-laid and one quite elderly...