She was a woman attempting to make some sense of, and get some satisfaction from, a life that seemed to have no more logic than a roulette wheel.

Miss Dietrich is not so much a performer as a one-woman environment.

We are drawn to our television sets each April the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident.

She may be the only leading lady in America today with the ability to cross one eye without moving the other.

It is guaranteed to put all teeth on edge, including George Washington's, wherever they might be.

When Uncle Bob (or Ted or Ray) promised to send a shooting star over the house to mark a young listener's birthday, the young listener, who had hung out the window for an hour without seeing the star, questioned not Uncle Bob (or Ted or Ray), but his own eyesight.