Word: tenderizer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...about six and a half minutes, The Tender Trap is a comedy. The play runs considerably over two hours. And this ratio makes one wonder if the standard Boston remedy of pruning the script will be quite enough. After a thorough job, the director would be left with but one scene and a few scattered chuckles, intermittent moments when The Tender Trap thrusts through the cultivated banality which marks 23/24s...
...colleagues struggle just as gamely, but their paths are more cluttered. The Tender Trap may well be one of the best-acted of all bad plays. Graham mugs and ingratiates simultaneously. Kim Hunter, playing a thirtyish career girl, adds a trim sophistication which balances Graham without neutralizing either role...
...rain [Aug. 30] might be consoling to those who wanted to go to Paris this summer and couldn't; it might also be seized upon with vindictive satisfaction by those who went and got rained upon . . . But to an old parigot, that beautiful photograph brings waves of tender nostalgia . . . Thanks to the habitual dove-grey Paris sky, I first learned to see color in the wet stones of the misty buildings ... in the black trunks of the chestnut trees and in their rich green leaves shining from the rain's varnish . . . What man who has not felt...
Only Viet Nam's Tran Van Do spoiled the friendly atmosphere. While negotiators and officials celebrated with wine and fine food, he scrawled out a statement: "I tender my resignation ..." Nobody paid any attention to the man who had stood helplessly by while 12 million of his countrymen were passed over into Communist slavery. "Reason and peace have triumphed!" cried Mendès-France...
Stocks & Solitaires. What does he encounter on the way but a "pair of tender eyes which seemed to repeat the prophet's exhortation, 'Ho, everyone that thirsteth, come ye to the waters.' " The trouble is, Sophia is already married to Christiano, an amiable young businessman whose soul, alas, "is a patchwork quilt." Though he would kill the man who touched his wife, Christiano is flattered when men try. This suits Sophia, a flirt with "an intuitive appreciation of solitaires." It also suits Rubião. To keep his welcome sweet at Christiano's, he lends...