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First Lady in Pore...
...days of ancestor worship are more or less over, and in point of prestige, the Harvard clubman has become the vanishing American. Once, Theodore Roosevelt, 1880, could happily blurt to the Kaiser that his son-in-law was Porcellian ("A mighty satisfactory thing to be in the Pore"). In 1954, such fathers-in-law are rare...
...hear her grunt an Italian monosyllable -"Eh!"-is better than a week in Bologna. And when she laughs, she seems to laugh out of every pore at once, as if it were just a more enjoyable way of sweating. In fact, Magnani is almost too strong for Renoir to hold. At every move she takes the stage from his main theme, a Pirandellian play on appearance and reality, theater and life; and it is just as well for the picture that she does...
Advertising men seem to be equipped with a sort of internal radar. As they pore over radio and TV scripts before they go on the air, the radar sets off a series of alarms-and certain words disappear forever from certain shows. Thus, on Philip Morris' I Love Lucy or the Camel News Caravan no one is ever referred to as "lucky." And on Lucky Strike shows there is never any mention of camels or caravans, of hoards of old gold, or of chesterfield sofas or overcoats. An adman for Chesterfield recently rewrote the lyrics of the show tune...
Weather forecasters are earnest men who do their best. They pore over floods of figures on-pressure, temperature, humidity and wind velocity. They consult the precedents like judges reaching back for past decisions. Sometimes they take a deep breath and predict warm, sunny weather-and get rain and snow instead. When the mess is being cleaned up, the amateur weather prophets claim they knew what would happen all along: they felt it in their rheumatism...