Word: rotundity
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...spanking new Paris Cinema, with its drunken murals of Eiffel Tower and Arc de Triomphe, with its little attendant in gendarme costume (a la Jack Lemmon) who welcomes all with a sheepish "bon soir," with its rotund manager exuding continental pleasantries in Maurice Chevalier tones as he hustles customers to their upholstered seats, really put me in the mood for Billy Liar...
...always managed to regain his balance. Recently, though, Zeckendorf's balancing act has been getting more and more precarious. Last week the Alleghany Corp, complained that Zeckendorf's Webb & Knapp, Inc, had failed to pay it $570,000 in back rent on some Denver properties, and rotund Bill Zeckendorf, 57, admitted that his $400 million empire was in its worst trouble ever. Said he: "I think the odds are about fifty-fifty whether we'll make it, and we'll know by the middle of the summer...
Died. Charles Laughton, 63, matchlessly versatile character actor of stage and screen; of cancer; in Hollywood. An English hotelkeeper's son, the rotund Laughton studied for the London stage, but his star rose on the screen with one tour de force after another-as a warmhearted gargoyle (Hunchback of Notre Dame), a thundering misanthrope (Mutiny on the Bounty), a ribald monarch (Henry VIII), an oratorical Southern senator (Advise and Consent). He was honored with Oscars, but cared little for the trappings of a star; as he himself said: "The truth is, I'm an incurable...
...service station that does not offer stamps, assiduously fills her books to redeem for Christmas presents. Though he himself could bring home the same premiums at wholesale cost, his wife's habit delights the Scots heart of Mac MacDonald, for whom premiums are a way of life. A rotund, robust optimist, MacDonald started his business career with a small Dayton firm selling luggage as contest prizes for salesmen. By expanding the company's premium line and concentrating on Detroit's automakers (who sometimes spend as much as $4,000,000 on a sales incentive campaign), MacDonald built...
Painter Stuart Davis is a small, rotund man who complains a good deal these days about not feeling too well. When asked specifically what ails him, he sweepingly announces, "I'm sick!" He may be-but the paintings in his current show at Manhattan's Downtown Gallery reflect a state of glowing health. They are young, bright, intense, and filled with the jazzy rhythms that have always been to Davis the pulse of modern life. In all his notable career, Davis at 67 has never seemed more vigorous...