Word: uptowners
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...magazines seldom propose drastic solutions that involve risk or hardship. Instead, they suggest that most problems can be solved by affection, tolerance, self-discipline-what Sociologist David Riesman calls the "newer, internal goals of happiness and peace of mind." Where their uptown sisters may lean on Norman Vincent Peale or Miltown, Wage-Town women have their magazines...
...Ross's attempt at Strindberg was only a noble experiment, a flock of similar experiments were doing nobly in converted nightclubs and church basements all around Manhattan. This season, off-Broadway theater can look its uptown big brother squarely...
Washington Square (14 alternate Sundays, 4 p.m., E.S.T., NBC) casts Bolger as friend or nursemaid to such village regulars as Comedienne Elaine Stritch, Singer Kay Armen, Comic Arnold Stang, and such one-shot shimmers from uptown as Martha Raye, Abbott & Costello. The première was overplotted and a little cluttered ("It was all we could do to find who belonged in the Square and who didn't," Bolger confessed). But with less emphasis on a running story-which tripped Bolger in his filmed TV efforts-and more on the infectious didos of its star, the show...
During the Second World War a record sold one-and-a-half million copies; the tune was "Let Me Off Uptown;" the singer, Anita O'Day. She had a unique style, toying with a melody, avoiding sentimentality in the ballads, and introducing jazz idioms. Miss O'Day became hugely popular. Columbia has reissued on LP the original sides she made with Gene Krupa's band, and they preserve their offbeat charm. Listen to the almost wordless "That's What You Think," and you'll realize that Anita is one of the great...
...these and other reasons, Niarchos is distrusted by oldtime shipowners, sneered at as an "uptown boy," i.e., a landlubber who doesn't know his fantail from a fo'c'sle. Though he seldom sets foot aboard a tanker, Niarchos retorts angrily that he is far more concerned with his fleet than his fortune...