Word: raving
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...baffled both by admirers who think him a social commentator and by those who rave about his humor. "My strongest feeling about anything is disparity-in materials or shapes or sizes. I may think a thing is amusing but I'm likely to be absolutely serious about it." With a self-conscious giggle he is apt to add, "I don't giggle...
British balletomanes cheered once more for Fancy Free, Pillar of Fire and other modern numbers that Ballet Theatre had presented on its previous visit four years ago. They also found something new to rave about in Agnes de Mille's carefully repolished Rodeo (music by Aaron Copland). An elegant first-night audience got so far into the roughriding spirit of the thing that they obeyed the program notes, beat their hands in time to the "Running Square Dance" sequence...
...Jitterbug" ("As a matter of fact," she says, "I couldn't jitterbug"), Betty worked up to $175 a week for Lopez. Then she quit him, though their contract still entitled him to 20% of her earnings. She went into a Broadway revue, Two for the Show, and got rave reviews...
Last week, in his Hollywood column, which the Newspaper Enterprise Association syndicates to 400 newspapers, Showoff Johnson gave a rave review to his tasteless performance. Old Johnson fans needed no explanation of such zany didos; Johnson was simply dramatizing his crusade against folks who eat popcorn In theaters...
That single all-night show set a pattern that radio is still following. From New York, a lonely girl in the Ritz-Carlton kept phoning him maudlin professions of love. Walter Wirichell was on the phone at 5 a.m., and carried a rave for Godfrey in his column. Just before sunup, Godfrey wished aloud that he had some coffee. About 8,000 Washingtonians got into their cars and drove out with sandwiches and full Thermos bottles...