Word: bustedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Baltimore's paunchy three-term Mayor Tommy D'Alesandro was punching hard. "I'm gonna bust their skulls wide open!", cried he of his rivals for Maryland's Democratic senatorial nomination. "You can bet on that." The three other principal candidates were punching too. Candidate Clarence D. Long, an economics professor at Johns Hopkins University, accused D'Alesandro (but later retracted and apologized) of having been "an outspoken admirer of Mussolini." Chimed in Candidate James Bruce, business tycoon and onetime (1947-49) U.S. Ambassador to Argentina: "D'Alesandro's tax policy has been...
...usual, the splashy annual Cannes film festival produced its share of ecdysis among the visiting females. A Yugoslav beauty challenged Cannes Visitor Jayne Mansfield to a boom-or-bust tape-measure duel. Two Norwegian models, coyly heeding the open-fronted tradition begun by the late Starlet Simone Silva four years ago, consented to some slightly untrammeled poses for photographers. Bulging into the limelight in a different way, a well-turned bevy of cinema quail (Italy's sunbrowned Sophia Loren, Russia's Tatiana Samoilova, Hollywood's Mitzi Gaynor and Russia's Lino Yudina) stood shoulder to shoulder...
...describe the state of high nervous tension in which such a bust is done, Epstein tells how he first roughs in the shape with clay, moves in to observe the eyes including "the exact curve of the under-lid," defines the nostrils so that they seem to quiver with breath, moves on to the lips, cheeks and finally the shoulders and back until he feels "a trembling eagerness of life pulsate through the work...
While there is a recession in the U.S. economy, one group of Americans more accustomed to bust than boom is in the midst of a new wave of prosperity. They are Manhattan's abstract expressionist painters, who until three years ago could rarely afford to move out of their coldwater, walk-up studios. Now their shows are selling out, and at record high prices...
...help finance 80 Days. He wanted everything to be big, fast, spectacular. On the first anniversary of 80 Days, he threw a party for 18,000 friends in Madison Square Garden that was a spectacular flop. "Well," shrugged Mike, "you can't say it was a little bust...