Word: papier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...takes its listeners to a "house on East 68th Street in little old New York," where Dorothy ("Sweetie") Kilgallen and Spouse Richard ("Darling") Kollmar fill the air with papier-máché sophistication, some slightly dated hep talk (Dottie still peppers her sentences with words like cat, bug and dig), and some vicious meows. Dorothy also has an inclination to be hilariously wrong. With authority and certitude, she misplaces geographical landmarks, mispronounces French words, and misnames the heroes of history. WOR listeners tune her in with something of the same impulse that makes crowds gather at a fatal accident...
This one-cylinder Barnum, this tower of sneers in tasseled shoes, this Shubert Alley Catiline, this mustachioed thane of the sceptered aisle, this Greek god, this other Edam, this papier-mãché genius, this blessed plotter, this doozer producer, this publicity addict who would send his cocker spaniel to Cape Canaveral if he thought it would get into space, this man, this David Merrick has done it again...
...thought were undeserved reputations. Toscanini he criticized as a practitioner of the "Wow Technique," by which he meant "the theatrical technique of whipping up something in a way to provoke applause automatically." Strauss's Salome, he wrote, was "like modernistic sculpture made of cheap wood, glass, rocks, cinders, papier-mâché, sandpaper and bits of old fur. But the whole makes a composition and the composition speaks." Thomson freely acknowledges that concerts were often the merest excuses for mounting one of his numerous musical soapboxes. No critic catnapped more frequently in his seat, and the Trib...
...whole place is powered by gigantic crystals that store solar energy. It is when Atlantis gets the idea that the same crystal can be used to obliterate all of the Old World east of Gibraltar that the papier-mâché plot rustles a little. The hero, a Greek fisherman vapidly realized by Newcomer Anthony Hall, invades Atlantis, survives the terrible Ordeal of Fire and Water, frees the slaves, foils the villain's plot, and gets away with the hot-eyed princess (Joyce Taylor) just before the whole bloody empire gurgles to the ocean floor...
...moor his boat at his own front door. The housing industry's hard-sell tactics, full of gimmicks that staid real estate men frown on, do most to revive old fears that Florida's economy, which collapsed so disastrously in the '205, is again made of papier-mache and overpapered mortgages. Despite the inrush of population, home builders still have put up more houses than they can sell. Says Economist Wolff: "There is no justification for building so many homes as are being built in Florida." Yet the land boom shows few signs of busting. Land prices...