Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Harpo's fans, at least two sequences should be enough to make the barren patches endurable. In one, the zany mute tramp leads three villains in a chase across the mid-Manhattan skyline, capering in & out of huge electric advertising displays that are ingeniously rigged to help him elude pursuit. The other sequence makes him the prisoner of international jewel thieves headed by Ilona Massey, whose decolletage plunges low enough to give even Hollywood a touch of the bends...
...There are only two ways to make a lot [of money] while you're young," says the heroine of Kathleen Winsor's second novel. "One is to entertain the public; and the other is to cheat it." To make a lot of money while she was young, Kathleen wrote a novel called Forever Amber. It sold more than 1,750,000 copies and entertained or cheated more readers than almost any novel about a predatory female since Gone With the Wind...
...made a saving suggestion: "Why don't you write a book about yourself in the twentieth century-like you wrote one about yourself in the eighteenth?" By page 352, Shireen has slipped some paper into a typewriter and made a start. If Shireen has sense enough to make her central character a beautiful doll named Kathleen Winsor, it should be a bestseller...
Unlike such surehanded predecessors as Eliot and E. E. Cummings, who refused to make concessions to ready intelligibility, hese poets seem genuinely to want to be understood. One of them, Harvard Scholar-Poet Richard Wilbur, writes, "I am sure that in all poets there is a deep need to communicate." Wilbur places part of the blame for the neglect of poetry on 'the laziness and uneasy pride of a half-educated and excessively comfortable middle class, whose intelligences have so long been flattered by all our great entertainment media that they cannot associate pleasure with effort . . ." There is undoubtedly...
Last month, Chase made the initial contribution towards a University hockey rink. He said last night that, despite his resignation--which he termed "one of the toughest things that's happened to me in a long while"--he hopes to be able to make further donations...