Word: smoothly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While Porter is laboring under this misconception, his audiences are not finding the going too smooth either. For Silk Stockings lacks even the tuneful amiability of his last show. Silk Stockings, you will soon find, lacks just about everything except some of that splendor which Mielziner imparts to any setting. Porter's ballads are so similar that the overture is only one, uninterrupted composition. There are none of the patter songs, those mixtures of Bulfinch, Shakespeare, and Louella O. Parsons which have paced the memorable Porter productions. He does, it is true, get off "A girl could flatten Lord Mount...
Beer & Epsom Salts. For snow that is supposed to be already on the ground, somewhat different techniques are used. Snowdrifts on TV are actually masses of plastic flakes in solid form; snowy window sills are shaped from a coarse dairy salt, then sprayed with water to give it a smooth, rounded look. To simulate frost on a windowpane. the technicians brew a mixture of beer and Epsom salts and paint it on the glass...
Haiti's Enguérrand Gourgue specializes in pictures of black magic, painted in a silk-smooth, sharply detailed manner. His Marine Landscape is a nightmare spread of swimming things with animal and human heads. In a highly authoritative book on Haiti out last week (Haiti: the Black Republic; Devin-Adair; $5), Critic Rodman rightly says that Gourgue, like Bigaud, "can be called a primitive only in terms of his origins and lack of formal training. If, as he now tells clients, Gourgue was tormented by demons until he painted them, he has a good and very convincing memory...
Although St. Lawrence and McGill are largely unknown quantities in the tourney, Boston College will probably be tougher to beat than they were last time. As of last week the predominantly sophomore Eagle sextet had no smooth passing attack, a rare deficiency in teams coached by Snooks Kelley. B.C. should develop playmaking ability as the season progresses and should therefore become tougher to beat with each game...
...then with slow, graceful movements he pumps the rod back, reels a few feet, pumps, reels. To protect his back, he lets his arms and one leg do the work. By the shivery feel on the line he can identify the catch. "Bonito," he tells Gregorio. "Good bonito." With smooth speed, he works the fish close to the stern. Gregorio grabs the wire leader and boats a blue-and-silver bonito of about 15 pounds. A broad, small-boy smile flashes through Hemingway's old-man whiskers. "Good," he says. "A fish on the boat before...