Word: assaultive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Aggravated assault (with intent to kill or maim...
...Feel. She credits Joshua Logan with steering her away from a too hasty assault on Broadway. He advised: "Get the feel of an audience again. Listen to it. Practice on the road and see what comes of it." Rosalind went on tour in John van Druten's Bell, Book and Candle. The reviews were consistently good, but she thinks she was terrible for the first three months: "I'd become sluggish working with the camera. The stage demands that you use 42 new muscles and you can't let down for one minute." After three months...
...Butler's prizewinner on display at London's Tate Gallery, its reedy symbolism was too much for one infuriated young spectator. He snatched up Butler's fragile Prisoner, crushed and twisted it beyond recognition. Sculptor Butler, who had spent eleven months modeling his creation, took the assault with poker-faced calm. Barring snags, he said quietly, he could build a new one, exactly the same, in two or three days...
...looking at a person in a leering manner, or watching and then following, one causes another to become frightened and run, then he is guilty of assault," said the judge to the jury in the superior court in Yanceyville, N.C. last November. The all-white jury promptly found Mack Ingram, a Negro farmer, guilty of "assault" against Willa Jean Boswell, daughter of a neighboring white farmer-even though everybody agreed that Willa Jean had safely run off across a cornfield, and Ingram was never closer than 50 feet to her (TIME, July...
...last week the Italian press cried for school reform Said the Demo-Christian Il Popolo: "The youth of today finds his moral support in a society of comic books movies and shows . . . where men & women shoot and poison, steal and assault; the representation of a jungle world." We are all convinced," said Milan's Corriere delta Sera, "that the Italian school program is loaded in a frightening manner. We must impose a remedy." Shrilled the Communist L'Unità: "The responsibility lies with the system in which we live, which transforms the school into a camp of ruthless...