Word: sketched
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...domestic enemy ("Some reporters write with crayons"), he settled down quickly to a chatty description of the foreign enemy in Moscow. Astonishingly enough, Paar as a reporter proved to be absolutely superb, from his description of the eerie silence of Russian crowds to his sketch of the ambitious personality of his Intourist guide. In one felicitous phrase, he marveled at the lack of a cultural and technological middle ground between "the outhouse and outer space"; in a fine vignette, he explained why all Russian traffic comes to a halt when a rainstorm begins: motorists keep windshield wipers locked away...
...near Sunset Strip, and their wild enthusiasm often suggests the final hours before a college humor magazine is put to bed. Ward, 41, is a former real estate man who entered TV in 1947, conceiving, writing and co-producing Crusader Rabbit, the first original animated television cartoon. Scott, whose sketch pad now yields all the Bullwinkle characters, wrote scripts for U.P.A.'s The Nearsighted Mister Magoo and Gerald McBoing Boing...
...Americans'] exploits been recorded in a school adventure story, it would have been held to be improbable." Demanding to know how the highly favored British women's tennis team could have suffered such a humiliating defeat (6-1 ) at the hands of the U.S. girls, the Daily Sketch called for an official investigation. Indeed, about the only Britons who gracefully accepted the loss of the Wightman Cup at Chicago last week were the losers. Said British Team Captain Beatrice Walter: "All in all, the Americans played better than I expected...
...himself and trying to think of some way by which he could get his trousers away from Abe. "Crusty-faced Democrats never were no good,' he mumbled to himself." Bert gets his pants back at the end of a story which, in the telling, is somehow a quick-sketch portrait, but never a caricature, of the two old vinegar sippers...
Sexy or Sad? Arranger Kay generally starts crawling with anything from a whistled melody to a piano sketch of the show's principal tunes, provided by the composer. Then he finds out how the composer or director wants them done-schmalzy, light or heavy, jolly or sad. It is his responsibility to determine the orchestra composition, which may number from 18 to 35 instruments. For Leonard Bernstein's rowdy On the Town, he accentuated brass and percussion; for last winter's The Happiest Girl in the World, he relied heavily on strings and woodwinds...