Word: matching
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Kelly's prose has tightened up a good deal since the appearance of The Poker Party; he has tamed his metaphors and come up with some fine images (his eyes bulged like tiny white balloons; the crown of the sun, burning into the top of the ridge like a match burning into the edge of a sheet of paper). There are still signs of roughness, however, and a profusion of commas and semi-colons in paragraphs where Kelly jams together various clauses in a weak imitation of Faulkner. In one place, near the beginning of the story, Kelly pictures...
...Earl Long's fate to live and strive in Huey's shadow. It was a striving founded on Earl's passionate conviction that he was twice the man Huey was-and, ironically, he was, save for the vital inability to match Huey's inner fire, his failure to plumb the imagination of Louisianians with Huey's black magic...
...informed, hates television, and uses his column as a springboard to bounce quips off." He was unfair, they said, to compare today's programing with the show spectrum of the Weaver era, since ABC had meanwhile emerged as a third major network, and it was competitively necessary to match its frank and potent mediocrities. What really bothered the NBC brass was not Crosby's charge of mediocrity but his suggestion that the network is not making money. As part of the parent RCA, NBC's profit-loss figures are never released, but management insisted that...
...vessel of iniquity, whose officers are mainly concerned with smuggling cigarettes and snuggling with lady voyagers. Before long the captain has taken a pratfall into a tray of lobster newburg, walked shudderingly across a boat deck alive with cries of water-borne passion, indulged in a spirited pie-throwing match with a roomful of children, and repulsed the sort of lowlife lady (Nadia Gray) that fictional characters are always repulsing. In no time at all, however, he meets the sort of highlife chick (Peggy Cummins) that fictional characters are always marrying; and at film's end, sure enough...
...blend of cloth. Laverne's "invisible" chairs are made of the plastic, make any room look bigger, less cluttered. Esso is experimenting with colored highways made from a blend of asphalt and tinted polypropylene. With the routes of a cloverleaf indicated by color and with highway signs to match, U.S. motorists would lave less trouble finding their way through superhighway mazes. Hercules Powder Co., pioneer producer of polypropylene, has developed a new glass-and-plastic material for a third-stage shell for the Minuteman missile. It is trans lucent, as light as magnesium and stronger than steel...