Word: shows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said one listener: "I bought a straight pari-mutuel ticket: Heifetz to win, Piatigorsky to place and Rubinstein to show. I damn well lost. In music like this there could not be a winner or a loser." Said another: "You didn't know whether to shout or bow your head...
...than $1,000,000 in ten Broadway musicals (Lindsay & Grouse are at work on an idea for a new one), making a living is presumably not a major worry. One of her friends, puzzled by her offstage venture, asked, "What do you expect to get out of your radio show?" Merman answered shortly: "A sponsor...
Merchant-builders increasingly favor the modern touches-at least on the inside where they won't glaringly show. But the man who wants a house to fit his family as well as the age he lives in still has good reason for building...
...neat efficiency of cruiser cabins and galley. There was nothing to sweep under, and no space to mislay things. The two bathrooms had overhead infra-red lamps to take the chill off. Neutra, with his characteristic attention to detail, had taken down a hanging from his own house to show Mrs. B. how the living-room draperies should be made...
Anybody Got a Commodity? It is on this split between the active but lowbrow man-in-the-street and the wrangling but ineffectual man-of-intellect that Author McCarthy spins her tale. In McCarthy's fable, the incidents of everyday life on the mountaintop soon show that the split is in fact a bridgeless gulf, and Utopia itself a creation without foundations-doomed not so much by "history" as by the colonists' inability to produce "a commodity more tangible than morality" and hopeful...