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...Phyllis McGinley thinks, and her just-published Sixpence in Her Shoe is loaded with such woman-to-woman advice as how not to kill a husband (resort to flattery; don't compete; share mutual bad habits), how to make chicken hearts palatable (braise them and serve with a sour-cream sauce), and how to understand baby talk (let one of the older siblings translate...
McKinley's game had been sour all year: he was beaten in the semifinals at Wimbledon, in the quarters at the U.S. Nationals, was even talking about quitting to sell stocks. Ralston had been off his chow too-with blisters and a bad case of jitters. But U.S. Captain Vic Seixas figured that the porous clay courts at Cleveland's new, $75,000 tennis stadium would help the Americans; Aussies are used to grass, on which the ball tends to bounce flatter and faster. The theory looked good when McKinley beat Stolle...
...some publishers that we should gladly suffer all faultfinders, including those whose eyes, too irritated by motes and beams no longer removable in drugstores, see little that is good in a sad world. When it comes to the fair, I know what disturbs the chemistry of the critics. Their sour stomachs dis tend and churn when they hear that we have discovered gold nuggets on the banks of Flushing Creek. The truth is that they hate like hell to see the fair moving to success. I don't overrate these people, but one drunk can interrupt a Mass...
...spectacular succession of sight gags. The plot is taken from Maupassant's tale of a legacy and the absurd or appalling things three people do to get it; the wit is dry, fast, subtle. When an impotent man looks at an obelisk, he winces. When a sour old spinster finally drops dead, her happy-go-lucky brother sidles up to the death bed, leans forward with a glitter of maniacal triumph in his eyes and deftly distorts her customary sneer into a pretty little smile. At his best, Alventosa is a master mechanic of comedy, an intellectual Keaton...
Another LP album, called Folk Songs for Conservatives, was purportedly recorded at a "hatenanny" where groups like the Four Bigots and Noel X and His Unbleached Muslims sang such traditional folk material as Hang Earl Warren to a Sour Apple Tree...