Word: oomph
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Spang, Glunlc, Oomph. "And who wants to see Miss West?" says the switchboard operator of Los Angeles' Ravenswood Apartments, with an air of tired nobility. At the end of a somewhat musty sixth-floor corridor alight-coffee-colored, middle-aged maid opens Mae's door, and ushers visitors into the Venusberg...
Spang in the middle of the room is a massive dressing table, its mirror garlanded with crystal lights. Glunk in one corner squats a pure-white grand piano. Oomph on the piano lid perches the famed marble statuette of Mae, like Venus, proud and unattired. From every wall, in every size & shape (and, by tradition, from the ceiling above the bed), mirrors stare at each other. All the upholstery is white-satin brocade, slowly aging, soon to be replaced (by white-satin brocade). There is a husky odor of high-priced perfumes...
...funny, though his aversion to new jokes is hardly an asset. The screen's best deadpan butler, Arthur Treacher, buttles his way through a succession of poor skits. With finely formed, Hungarian-born Ilona Massey, the Follies does a little girl-glorifying, but in general the show lacks oomph as well...
This week the old vessel is being given a proper funeral, complete with oratory & oomph. And in the pages of the Journal it is getting an obituary greater and longer than any the Journal ever published for any mere man-except Sam Jackson, who got a whole page. "Grams" wants it that...
...President, engrossed in the war, had lost some of his own magic touch: he failed to make Senator James M. Mead Governor of New York, his endorsement of liberal George Norris failed in Nebraska. And, outside of the President, there was hardly a New Dealer with the political oomph that controls party conventions and wins elections...