Word: afraid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...find comfort in stretching his arm to one side and leaving it there. Soon after entry into the gravity-free state, his vision will return. His respiration will become steady and slow. His heart will still run fast from the excitement, but he will not be uncomfortable, not even afraid. He may wonder if this uncontrollable thing may suddenly and prematurely rush him back to earth again...
...swung open the door, the girl reached into her handbag and pulled out a Smith & Wesson .38. Holding it with both hands ("I was afraid I would miss," she explained later), she opened fire. Last week, on trial for murder in Naples, she defiantly declared: "I would do it again!" With that, the whole courtroom burst into cheers...
...Dark at the Top of the Stairs. William Inge's characters are alone, afraid, in a world they halfway made. In CHICAGO...
...screenplay manages to connect the reporter who discovered Judd's glasses, his girl (Diane Varsi), and the homicidal pair. Artie urges Judd to assult the girl on a bird-watching date, and this crisis recreates the conflicts of the murder ("You're not that cruel, Judd....I'm not afraid of you, I'm afraid for you"). But after the chatter between the cops, the reporter and his girl, Judd, Artie, and "Mumsie," and a destruction of the boy's alibi that has more resemblance to a college dean discovering who set off the stink-bomb in Chemistry, the movie...
...Dark at the Top of the Stairs. William Inge's characters are alone, afraid, in a world they halfway made. In LOS ANGELES...