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...congratulations to the author of that fashion note "Curving the Curple" on his near creation of a literary gem on a subject that under prosaic treatment would have been something worse than gauche...
...Peter Lorre gathered together. The swansong of the team, its leader, and the whole crime movie genre came with Beat the Devil (1954), a parody of Maltese Falcon. Since then, fictional gangsters have become sensitive persons with damaged psyches, and the brutal but efficient good guys a group of prosaic scientists, psychiatrists, and philosophers...
...time when most of the glamour stocks have lost their charm, a company with the distinctive name of Xerox still holds on to its appeal. Xerox owes all of its astonishing market success to a complicated, desk-sized machine prosaically called the 914 Office Copier. There is nothing prosaic about what the 914 does: without muss, fuss, delay or extensive training of an operator, it makes copies on ordinary paper of almost anything that will fit on its Qin. by 14-in. plate - including a child's doll. Last week, thanks to the 914. Xerox stock closed...
Unnoticed Guest. Lonely, forlorn, often sour, Jack Benny doesn't see the world as a great big ball of laughs. There is much color in his work but little in his private life. He has prosaic tastes and few pleasures (golf is one). He is intelligent but unsophisticated about nearly everything but show business. His education stopped in the ninth grade. He means it when he says that the highest moment of his career came when his home town in Illinois named a junior high school after...
...thinking might be broader than that. Bell writes in The End of Ideology, "But where the problems are, as Karl Popper put it, of 'piecemeal technology,' of the prosaic, yet necessary questions, of school costs, municipal services, the urban sprawl, and the like, bravura radicalism simply becomes a hollow shell." And Schlesinger in New Statesman writes "Apart from civil rights, the contribution of the utopian Left to the discussion of domestic issues has been unimpressive...