Word: wagnerism
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...bubble-topped Lincoln, New Yorkers-125,000 of them-lined the streets to cheer him and to wave placards (WE ARE COUNTING ON YOU, IKE) as if he were a fighter climbing into the ring. Even the customary show of political partisanship was gone; Democratic Mayor Robert Wagner, who had never seen fit to greet the President on past visits, rode into town with...
...native New Yorker, the commissioner might have known that such casual talk would not pass unchallenged. The New York Board of Rabbis issued an angry statement. Mayor Wagner called the commissioner on the carpet, demanded an apology within 48 hours and announced angrily: "He's the police commissioner and I'm the mayor, and everybody in the city had better understand that...
Everybody concedes that Wagner dragged out can get unbearable, but even the clock watchers themselves do not agree on the important question: Is fastest best...
...Fine Young Cannibals (Avon; M-S-M) proves once again that while inspiration may falter, color cameras never get tired. The anthropophagi of the title are four unpleasant young folks from Texas (Robert Wagner, Natalie Wood, George Hamilton and Susan Kohner). Poor Boy Wagner loves Poor Girl Wood -carelessly, as it turns out. Spurning his offer of honorable wedlock, she boards an eastbound train, meets suave Yaleman Hamilton and, smelling riches, lets herself be plied with strong drink from his portable pigskin bar. He has her way with her, so to speak. Later, learning that Natalie is pregnant...
Soon the scene shifts from the sinful luxury of the Ivy League to the saloons of New York. Actor Wagner, the Texan left behind, has become a huge success as, of all things, a trumpet player. To spite Natalie, he marries Susan, which seems to be carrying spite too far. For a while it looks as if the four young marrieds will not live happily ever after, but the only character who comes to a bad end is Singer Pearl Bailey. She is supposed to be a blues singer dying of unrequited love, but actually her malady looks more like...