Word: unctuous
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...every night. It's a regular thing." As post time approaches for the first race, lines quickly form and disperse at the betting windows. The dogs, donned in colored, numbered blankets, leave the kennels and parade past the grandstand, and around the track to the starting blocks. Meanwhile, the unctuous voice of the announcer calls "Hurry, Hurry, Hurrrry--place your bets." The odds on the big boards in the infield flash rapidly with the changing whims of the crowd. Tension mounts as the hounds poise, leap, speed. The rumbling mob roars and fragments as the end approaches. The winning number...
...moist and dusty rank in the shadows past the open door. "Red bar'l, massah. Dat's de bar'l fo' a gentleman, massah." When the desire to play the obsequious coon came over him, Hark's voice became so plump and sweet that it was downright unctuous. "Marse Joe, he save dat bar'l for de fines' gentlemens...
Inside, lines quickly form and disperse at the betting windows. As the dogs, donned in colored, numbered blankets, parade past the grandstand and around the track to the "starting blocks," the unctuous, slightly sinister voice of the announcer calls "Hurry, Hurry, Hurrrry--place your bets." The odds on the big boards in the infield flash with the changing whims of the crowd. Tension mounts as the hounds wait, flash, speed. The rumbling mob roars and fragments as the end approaches. The winning number lights up on the board and the favored of fate make their way to the "Collect" windows...
...Oozing unctuous concern for the plight of dateless girls, a group of Princeton men last fall published Where the Girls Are, a guide to the delights of dating at Eastern women's colleges. Last week, for their pains, they got back a stiletto of witticism called Where the Boys Are, researched by girls at Smith and Mount Holyoke and written by two male turncoats at Amherst...
...offers mountains, sky, surf, birds and Elizabeth Taylor as an irresistible bohemian painter who lures an upright schoolmaster (Richard Burton) away from his loyal blonde wife. When Star Burton first read the script, he remarked that "it hits pretty close to home." Director Vincente Minnelli exploits this possibility with unctuous professionalism, fielding his glamorous duo in a romance à clef that they appear to take seriously...