Word: padding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...such talent, he makes no mention of it. European Witness is in the main a routine travelogue. It has flashes of fancy poesy ("poignant deep-green fields through which homesickness seems to bleed with a dark stain of greenish blood"), and a full share of the pedestrian details that pad out most travel books ("During the [week] days I went for three walks . . . once to the Cloisters of the Nikolaskirche, once to the Poppelsdorfer Schloss and once to the Beethovenhaus, which was closed"). It also has passages in which Poet Spender writes like a naive old schoolmaster...
...Hart was incapable of doing so. Failing that, he has fallen back on the formula which made his "Lady in the Dark" such a success, the dream sequence. Thus with the aid of four (or is it five?) voyages into the tortured unconscious of Christopher Blake, Hart manages to pad out his play to the conventional length. Although they try mightily to be alternately charming and terrifying, the dreams are almost without exception extremely disagreeable. Hart's attempts to make the first pair of dreams child-like only ends in their being childish; his attempts at pathos in the last...
...Memo Pad. In The Bronx, William Davenport tried to steal two nude statuettes, explained in court: "They reminded me of my girl friend...
...second husband Paul Owen Richmond), lost her purse in a Hollywood nightclub. The purse's contents: a diamond-studded gold cigaret lighter, a diamond-studded gold cigaret holder, a diamond-studded gold compact, a diamond-studded gold lipstick-&-perfume set, a diamond-studded pillbox, a solid gold scratch pad and pencil, a diamond-&-gold coin purse, a diamond-studded gold money clip, $500 in cash, and 40 solid gold keys. But no tooth powder...
Your "People" [TIME, Aug. 26] about the illustrious, beautiful, "neat, sexy, appealing and clean" Anita Loos has caused rising blood pressure in many. You say she threw up her hands at the wild younger generation. She is darn lucky she can still throw up her hands and pad her tummy with steaks and martinis (as she did in the picture you ran), thanks to the "wild younger generation," the generation which spilled blood all over the world for her and others just like...