Word: rakishness
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...even bigger gains ahead. With output up 48%, the company fully expects to make more money in the first quarter of 1957 than in all of 1956. Chief reason for Chrysler's comeback: the styling, epitomized by flashy tail fins, which makes its 1957 line the most rakish on the road. At Chrysler nowadays, nothing is too good for the man responsible: handsome, silver-haired Virgil Max Exner, 47, the company's ace designer since...
Uncharacteristically reticent, Artist Diego Rivera, 69, returned home to Mexico City after six months in Moscow, where he got radioactive cobalt treatment for skin cancer. In a rakish astrakhan hat and heavy overcoat, Communist Rivera politely gave terse answers to newsmen's questions. Was he completely cured? "Completely. I am a different man. The cobalt saved me." What's going on inside Russia? "The doctors are curing cancer." Will there be a major war soon? Muttered Rivera cryptically: "That is what many want." And then he was gone...
...hand in glove. Their nonchalance and dastard evil, dispelled at the end when they too become human, are lustily executed. J.D. Shucter as Gepetto the puppetmaker, peers with great authority through horn rims, though his early slapstick might appear a trifle strained. Marc Brugnoni's Sandwich Man is marvelously rakish and sly, but no one ever gets really scared, for his unctuousness naturally makes him more humorous than frightening. Blue Fairy's role is difficult in the presence of such raucous other characters. Louise Greep in the part is lovely, but suffers perhaps, from some self-consciousness...
Good symphony orchestras acquire personalities. The Philadelphia Orchestra, with its assertive violins and its glib winds, is the suave, subtly domineering man of the world. The New York Philharmonic-Symphony, with, its virtuosity and its rakish unpredictability, is the matinee idol in danger of growing a paunch. The Boston Symphony, with its exquisite balances and flawless inflections, is the American whose manner shows that he was raised by a French governess. The Amsterdam Concertgebouw, with its mellow strings and faintly ponderous sonority, is the sexagenarian with all his hair and a twinkle in his eye. Last week...
...Morris Motors suggested a styling change, devoted MG owners rose in protest and demanded that the company preserve the oldfashioned, unstreamlined body with its high fenders, running boards and narrow hood. But last week the '56 MG showed up in U.S. showrooms with a new face. It had rakish lines, fat fenders, a curved windshield-and looked just like any other small sports...