Word: rakishness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...props: a stuffed horse without a head, sets of bagpipes which he played screechingly, old costumes strung on clotheslines across the room. Like other lonely men, he kept animals, among them a crow with a broken leg for which he fashioned a wooden one. He liked dashing clothes-rakish caps and velveteen jackets-but he never carried a suitcase on trips, instead wore his extra shirts one on top of the other, the collars crammed into his pockets. He smoked stubby black pipes, insisted on apple tart for breakfast, favored charred meat coated with marmalade for lunch, and spent...
...fast-acting electronic auto-pilot can be added to stop the bucking and pitching that have been known to flip a tailless plane into the beginning of a fatal somersault. But the GA-5, as an added measure of safety, carries a small delta tail high on its rakish...
Helping to overcome some of the over sentimentality is a witty performance by Mary Wickes as a maid who does not like any of her employer's songs. Frank Love-joy is nonchalant enough in the role of a rakish composer who collaborates with Gus Kahn in some of his greatest hits...
...without it Gigi is merely raffish, and less entertaining than it should be. Only such a tittle jewel of a scene as the scene of the jewels comes off completely. Otherwise, Gigi shimmers most while its scenes are being shifted, when against evocatively Parisian curtains it plays gay, rakish period tunes...
Take a simple, everyday situation, for example a large truck backing into a small parking space. It is normal enough until Arno puts in an old woman, complete with rakish hat and shawl, directing the driver: "O.K., Cut her hard!" she shouts. Or the man standing front of the burned ruins of his house in slippers and bathrobe. The fire trucks are pulling away and the chief says, "Well, if you ever need us again just give us a ring." Or the little boy lying on his bed as the governess reads a fairytale. "You mean the Three Bears raised...