Word: touche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thanks to Television. With help from Boyd, and such other horse-opera stars as Roy Rogers and Gene Autry, one retailer estimated the trade would sell upwards of 40 million pieces of Western gear this year. About half of all boys' furnishings will have a Western touch. Though the boom has been building for several years, one big reason for the sudden upsurge is television. Unable to get current movies, TV stations have resurrected hundreds of old-fashioned Westerns...
...crowded inhabitants of big cities tried to live cannily. They avoided hot subway gratings and steaming manholes as martens avoid traps; when walking they tried to route themselves past the doors of air-conditioned movies, where they could breath in a little coolness. The touch of a barber's hot towel, or the simple process of swallowing hot coffee, was enough to make a shirt go limp or a woman's make-up shine greasily. In the packed and airless slums, tens of thousands slept on rooftops or fire escapes. The heat seemed even more pitiless out across...
...watches, absorbed, the mating dance of the scorpions: "These hideous devotees of gaiety provide a dance that is not wholly devoid of charm . . . They seek one another and fly precipitately the moment they touch, as though they had mutually burnt their fingers ... At times there is a violent tumult; a confused mass of swarming legs, snapping claws, tails curving and clashing, threatening or fondling, it is hard to say which. All, large and small alike, take part in the brawl; it might be a battle to the death, a general massacre; and it is just a wanton frolic...
Beginning in September, the network will broadcast commercial advertising for the first time in its history. But the Rundfunk's directors added an original touch: all of the commercials will be jammed to gether in two half-hour periods; one at 6:30 in the morning, the other at noon. For the rest of the day Bavarian listeners will be on their...
...strange life, recorded with more care than brilliance by Biographer Sprigge, unfolds much like a Strindberg play, except for an occasional redeeming touch of the ridiculous...