Word: swellingly
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...lousy bonbons in it." Last week, fleeing the candy box, the retired Enfant Terrible of Broadway, now 62. took time off from filling out his collection of A.T.&T. shares (with 80,000, worth roughly $11 million, he is now the company's second biggest stockholder) to swell his collection of marriage licenses to four. For his latest fling at matrimony, Billy chose a familiar partner: ex-Showgirl Joyce Mathews, 42. to whom he was previously married from 1956 to 1959. (His first two wives: the late Fanny Brice and Big Dipper Eleanor Holm.) For Joyce, even a nuptial...
...experiment, they point out, has an eminently practical purpose. Radar observation of thunderclouds has shown that lightning often precedes the formation of rain. Vonnegut suspects that the lightning creates vast numbers of charged particles that cause a cloud's small water droplets to attract one another and swell into drops large enough to fall as rain. If he can learn how to make lightning flash in a growing thunderhead, he may yet learn to coax rain from a cloud that would otherwise soar unproductively overhead...
...economic policy "is like growing a babul tree and expecting to get mangoes. They come to you when they need your vote; when they are returned to power, they become, little monarchs who levy taxes on you as they please, make you quarrel with each other, and swell their bank accounts...
...Chakiris and Rita Moreno are strikingly slummy. On-screen as onstage, Stephen Sondheim's lyrics sting like a tongueful of tamales. Leonard Bernstein's music, as usual spinelessly eclectic, fails (as the whole film fails) to merge the moods of sweetness and blight; but it is often swell strutty stuff...
...maturation. Too often the view is obscured by the arabesques of an intricate and suspensefully entertaining plot, but often enough the onlooker is left quietly alone with Actress York, who at 22 can still quite easily pass for bittersweet 16. who with marvelous urgency seems to writhe and swell and blush and suffer and ripen and resolve into physical and spiritual womanhood before the spectator's eyes. It is a heart-shaking thing...