Word: velvets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Toys were better in quality than last year. The paper shortage had eliminated many accordion-like cardboard creations, and WPB had allowed limited quantities of metal for things like doll carriages. Herds of odd stuffed animals turned up-satin sea lions, kangaroos with detachable offspring and velvet dachshunds in chartreuse, cerise and copper rose. A favorite item for children: secondhand tricycles, to be bought in side streets with the furtive triumph of Central American revolutionists buying old Gatling guns...
...escaped prisoners hide out in a velvet-fogged marsh, full of artistically silhouetted reeds, which belongs, if anywhere, in Coronet. Heisler's exhaustion, fear and mistrust are merely stage props, never a living agony of nerves and soul. Tracy himself, careful and sincere and able as he is, is wrong for the role. By strong implication in the novel, George Heisler was a dramatically and morally fascinating species of human being, typical of 20th-century Europe if unfamiliar in the U.S.-a seasoned and astute professional revolutionist. George Heisler as presented in this cautious film is wholly nonpolitical except...
...population in 1925, now has 700,000. The outlook of its leaders is like that of last century's western Americans. The double-laned Krasny Prospekt is one of Russia's finest avenues. An $8,000,000, 2,000-seat opera house is rich in red velvet, lush statuary, a Phantom-of-the-Opera chandelier, a 105 by 105 ft. stage with an electrically driven, concrete safety curtain...
...clowning act is performed with a guitar-strumming stooge against a shiny backdrop that looks like the cover of a Pocket Books mystery. Tin Tan himself wears a cock's tail in his flat black homburg, a knee-length purple velvet jacket, a steel watch chain hanging below the knees of his balloon trousers which narrow at the ankles. He is forever fondling and fussing over his mike, always starts off by jabbering such gibberish as Viriviriviri-virividee, V por Victori. At intervals he tosses in his own crazy versions of mariachi tunes, Russian melodies, Italian arias; but mostly...
...from the fight on Eniwetok to somebody's idea of heaven: a movie. Dog-tired, they were glad enough to flop down anywhere. Suddenly on the wrinkled screen, smiling winsomely, glowed the features of Frank Sinatra. And soft against the battle-battered Marine eardrums throbbed Frank's velvet protestations of his love for them. There was a short, amazed, ecstatic silence; then the Marines yawped, groaned and moaned, "Frankie, Oh Frankie, Oh Frankie, kiss me Frankie...