Word: peering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Except for Talk to Me, Baby ("Tell me lies, lies, lies"), Robert Emmett Dolan's score is rather do-re-mealy for Johnny Mercer's lyrics, which are at their cleverest in Bon Vivant, delivered by Lahr impersonating a British peer with mauve tweeds and a stiff upper lisp. In fact, without Bert Lahr's vintage hokum, Foxy would be earthbound, not mirthbound...
Basic Basset. Ciji and her peer group think that it is also the essence of cool to see Bogey films on the eve of examinations. "There's something just so heroic about going to see something anti-intellectual the night before an exam," she explains. "Like imitating Bogart's I-don't-give-a-damn attitude...
...Joseph Schildkraut, 68, Vienna-born actor who won star billing on Broadway in 1921 as the carnival barker in Molnar's Liliom, parlayed his talents into more than 60 screen roles, two dozen onstage, 80 on television, commencing with romantic leads in his salad days (Ibsen's Peer Gynt, Benvenuto Cellini in The Firebrand), evolving into character parts such as Papa Frank in The Diary of Anne Frank; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...Union President Laffon raised money from the government, property owners and insurance companies for a retirement home to open this spring at Lardy, 27 miles from Paris. When completed, it will house 83 persons who can happily spend their declining years refusing to answer knocks on their doors, or peering down long corridors at other ex-concierges who peer suspiciously back at them. Still unfound: someone willing to be concierge for Lardy's ex-concierges...
Though it does not pass to the next generation, Britain's title of life peer gives the holder all the other noble rights, including a seat in the House of Lords. And that sits fine with Dora Gaitskell, widow of Labor Leader Hugh Gaitskell. The new Baroness Gaitskell sees the distinction "as a tribute to my late husband." But, she adds, thinking of her interest in education and prison reform, "it is also a way for me to get back into active politics...