Word: anguishingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tchin-Tchin is magical. It is also fragile, but it is saved from wispiness by Leighton and Quinn. Excellence is an acting habit with Margaret Leighton, and her Pamela is expectably perfect. Anthony Quinn brings his subtlest gifts to Caesario, a character in whom anguish and sentiment sprout like city flowers between slabs of concrete. As the Pickett...
Last August 24 a group of young Cuban exiles in two small motor launches shelled a waterfront hotel in Havana. The Cubans--members of the Student Revolutionary Directorate (DRE) with head-quarters in Miami--evoked cries of anguish from Fidel Castro by their abortive bombardment and "embarrassment and annoyance" on the part of the United States government...
...specific, he contrasted the performing styles of Negro and white entertainers, "Look at the difference between Billie Holiday and Doris Day," he suggested, "or if that's a loaded example, between Frank Sinatra and Ray Charles. The thing that Ray is singing out of--a tradition of violence, of anguish, of danger--is something Sinatra doesn't know much about...
...since Little Eva had there been such a deathbed scene. The 87th Congress expired interminably, and in oratorical anguish. But at least and at last it died...
Raising Standards. After considering rival bills for months, leaders in both houses of Congress heard the wail of public anguish and feared that it would turn into a roar of indignation. They quickly got together and hammered out the reasonable compromise that Kennedy signed. Pleased spectators at the signing were the Food and Drug Administration's Commissioner George P. Larrick and Dr. Frances O. Kelsey. who kept thalidomide off the U.S. market...