Word: sweatered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Anyone who believes this will cherish the rest of this movie. Since Kid Galahad is Elvis Presley, he has trouble lifting his eyelids, let alone eight-ounce gloves. Except for Joan Blackman's sweater, there is precious little to open anyone's eyes in this re-botch of the 1937 movie about the seamy side of the fight game. Between bouts, Presley Elviscerates a few helpless songs, moos over Joan, and twists like Little Egypt. Gig Young as a blarneying promoter and Lola Albright as his "fiancée" try to beat some brains into the picture...
...Real Struggle." No dandy, Beaumont likes to wear a sweater and crumpled slacks. His nails are grimy, and a shoelace is often untied. He gives heavily but anonymously to charity and is quite unembarrassed by his wealth. "My chief job as a Christian is to use my money wisely," he says. "Having lots of money and a big house like this can be very useful, you know, and it is the inner life that really matters. It is there that the real struggle must take place...
...each, despite the fact that Pringle tries to hold the price to more than twice as much by refusing to sell to discounters. How did Korvette's get the cardigans? Pringle tracked them back through at least two intermediaries: Pringle had sold them to a manufacturer of sweater linings, who had sold them to a manufacturer of fur collars, who then presumably sold them to Korvette...
...Broadway this season is the lithesome legs of Noelle Adam, who dances in and out of Richard Rodgers' in-Paris-and-in-love musical, No Strings, in the role of a cheerfully chased photographer's assistant. A onetime ballerina, Mile. Adam scampers about in a baggy sweater that sets off a leotard hardly big enough to cover a Persian cat, blithely displaying the charms that her tutu used to hide...
John Updike is a brilliant writer who has so far failed to write a brilliant book. Admiring readers who have watched him warm up for the last several years, exhibiting his perfect half volleys and cableknit sweater, soon may begin to wonder when he is going to get on with the match. The warmup continues in the present collection, as the author jogs his beautifully developed style through a not very demanding series of mood studies, stories and sketches...