Word: bit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only to have his Sten gun jump and riddle the chauffeur's body. Beldeanu admitted, however, that he had considered taking hostages and holding the legation until the Bucharest government liberated a number of prominent anti-Communists from Rumanian jails. "Don't you think this is a bit too fantastic?" asked Presiding Judge Paul Schwartz. "No," said Beldeanu firmly...
...logic and the general air of incoherence are only minor imperfections in a film as carefully contrived as a matchstick castle. The Searchers is rousingly played by what Hollywood calls the "John Ford Stock Company"-a group made up of Wayne, Harry Carey Jr., Ward Bond, a half-dozen bit players, seven stunt men who are repeatedly shot off horses, and many of the same Navajo Indians who have been losing battles in John Ford pictures since 1938. By now, all of them perform with practiced ease: the women know just where to stand on the cabin porch as they...
...intuitively reached the same decision," one of them said later. "Maybe the burgomaster's action can be explained, but for us it's indefensible. The Lipchitz is a fine bit of plastic art, and, anyway, not many people realized what it represented. Most everybody thought it was a turtle." Another added: "The Couple was a pretty statue, and it looked just fine the way it stood there. I don't know what the burgomaster should have done, but it was a real nice show and it's a pity it had to end this...
...dropped another 5¾ points to 9. Next trading day, the rush to sell was so great that the exchange had to stop trading in the stock; when trading was resumed, it slid to a low of 5¾. At week's end Bellanca had rallied a bit and was up to 7¾. Stockholders had taken a bad beating, but the big loser was Albert, who had held 950,000 shares when the slide started. His paper loss: about $20 million...
...breaking in, and no sooner does philosophy take its ease than show business bangs loudly on the door. For all Shirley Yamaguchi's sweet reedy singing, and the libretto's thoughtful and pretty words, Utopia seems freshened up by a touch of vulgar Broadway speed or a bit of Harold Langri-la. Lang and Joan