Word: pettiest
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...more frightening than any sudden gunshot--it's more frightening when the unexpected body you discover is live. The ferris wheel in the Prater will never stop turning--Reed films it from the crazy angles that were Orson Welles' trademark; it is here that he reveals that even the pettiest racketeer has a philosophical motive--and an attractive one at that--for his crimes...
...should the reader of this book. Only Amis' talent as a storyteller and stylist keeps Girl, 20 from settling into the pettiest smugness. But then, an Amis novel has always been like a naughty jaunt on a thinly iced pond. Too much moral or critical weight concentrated in any one place means breaking through to the shallows beneath the surface...
...from Marguerite Duras' simultaneously luminous and opaque play, A Place Without Doors, which is having its U.S. premiere at New Haven's Long Wharf Theater. Another tentative meaning might be that life is a mystery on a scale that reduces the solution of a murder to the pettiest of puzzles. Since Marguerite Duras is a French novelist and a scenarist (Hiroshima, Mon Amour), still another specifically Gallic meaning to be drawn from her play is that the heart has its reasons that reason knows...
Above all, perhaps, WWD under Fairchild has shown a taste for vendettas against designers. Norman Norell, Mainbocher, Pauline Trigère and Mollie Parnis have all had their work pointedly ignored in its pages. Often, it seems, for the pettiest of reasons. Miss Trigère was honest enough to deride the clearly pretentious term Longuette on a David Susskind television show last March. Her work has not been covered by WWD since. Cause and effect? Not at all, says Publisher Brady, who adds with a stamp of his tongue: "I think Madame Trigère has no influence on American fashion." Mollie...
...conflict escalates and the napalm falls, Americans are driven in ever-increasing numbers to acts of petty thievery. Yesterday's assault on the Lampoon Ibis stands as one of the pettiest. The stolen article is an old bird, metallic in nature and of no value to anyone. Its removal is an affront to the pride and intelligence of its keepers, and to law and order as well. The offenders should be treated like the loathsome degenerates they clearly...