Word: whiffs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Elizabethan epithets and their modern equivalents resounded in the ancient British trawler ports of Grimsby and Hull last week, and the Queen's ministers sent off an ultimatum to Reykjavik that called up memories of gunboats and a whiff of grape. Reason: Iceland last week proclaimed, effective Sept. 1, a twelve-mile fishing limit off its coasts, a zone drawn from the outermost points instead of bending like a ribbon to follow the contours of the coast...
...Faces of 1952) whose delivery is sometimes so shaggy that it is hard to tell which end of his joke is wagging. He mugs through an uproarious monologue on graduation day at a bop school, i.e., a baccalaureate sermon on how to puff marijuana cigarettes without wasting a whiff of those "leftwing Luckies." With poker-faced, evil-eyed Straight Man Gerry Matthews, 26, he delivers a to-the-point parody of TV Torquemada Mike Wallace. The cellar's other mummers are Ceil Cabot, a pout-mouthed Imogene Cocaesque comedienne with a wonderful talent for double and triple takes...
Granted that a heavy percentage of every publisher's seasonal list could well be doused with something or other, preferably Mum, this sort of thing nevertheless will deeply alarm all right-thinking (and right-smelling) readers. The precedent raises dreadful possibilities: a whiff of chloroform for Not As a Stranger, essence of unwashed T-shirt for On the Road and the odor of sanctity for The Power of Positive Thinking...
Sweet Smell of Success. A nauseous whiff of the rat-tat-tattling of a megalomaniacal Broadway columnist and his fawning hatchetman; with Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis cracking whiplash dialogue (TIME, June...
Sweet Smell of Success. A nauseous whiff of the rat-tat-tattling of a megalomaniacal Broadway columnist and his fawning hatchetman; with Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis (TIME, June...