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Night Tide. Amidst the clapboard and tinsel of the amusement park at Venice, Calif., a siren song lures a young sailor toward destruction. He meets a girl, Mora, whose dark eyes distill the rapture of the depths. "I am a mermaid," she tells him-perhaps referring to her job, which involves slipping into a scaly fishtail and then into a tank at a boardwalk sideshow. But Mora is unfathomably fey. She collects starfish and coral. Gulls fly into her arms. She is tormented by a mysterious Woman in Black who appears with jet veils murmuring about her like sea things...
...occurs to me that so much chic and taste is absolutely vulgar. Judging from the TIME photos, Mme. Alphand appears to have reached the peak of human automation. Do the American officials in Washington all really fall for such Continental decadence and tinsel? It makes me feel I should come to the defense of my country. And a husband who kisses you on both cheeks if you're in and shakes your hand if you're out: really...
HERE'S LOVE, by Meredith Willson, takes place during the Christmas season, but it lacks the holiday gifts of song and story that Willson brought to Music Man. All tinsel but no tingle, Love needs more than Santa's help...
...himself. He had the further bad fortune to be a romantic and, what is more, a romantic who was foolish enough to marry the heroine of his own novels. Scott's Zelda was the love object a worse and more prudent man would have rejected when the tinsel tarnished. Fitzgerald stayed in love...
...fair. The prince's snob appeal was pure, being unfettered by real connections. And Romanoff's became one of the best-known restaurants anywhere. The shadow prince became just another honest Boniface. A businessman. A tradesman. A merchant. A non-fraud! Even the glitter of the real tinsel had worn...