Word: buttoned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...where she was just sort of standing around when all of a sudden this producer comes running up and says, "I've auditioned 500 kids, and you're the perfect one. Sing something." Well, that's just how it happened to Sheri Bond, 7, a brunette, button-eyed tyke. She was at a special screening of a movie in Manhattan with her dancer mother when an assistant director of Meredith Willson's upcoming Here's Love, the stage version of Miracle on 34th Street, spotted her and knew she was just the one. Of course...
What I have in mind is Lear's very last five lines--the most daring and unorthodox valedictory speech ever penned, though made up of nothing but short, everyday words: "Thou" It come no more,/ Never, never, never, never, never!/ Pray you undo this button. Thank you, sir./ Do you see this? Look on her! look! her lips!/ Look there, look there...
Lear has Cordelia's lifeless body before him, and mourns her. Carnovsky delivers all these lines in the same mood--one of depression. This is, I believe, a misinterpretation. Shakespeare wants a change of mood here, and he makes it possible by inserting the infinitely touching but essentially irrelevant "button" line...
London's biggest boxing crowd in years-35,000-was on hand at Wembley Stadium hoping to see Henry Cooper, 29, button the Louisville Lip. Not that anyone really expected it. Cooper might be the British and Empire heavyweight champion, but he was older by eight years and outweighed by 21 Ibs.; then, too, there was all that tender scar tissue around Cooper's battered eyes. "I'm afraid our 'Enery will 'ave to 'it 'im over the bonce with Bow bells to beat 'im," admitted one Londoner. But Clay...
...saving of $8,000 per car a year). They are so electronically sophisticated that they will not close their doors on a passenger (though they may scare him a little by trying to), automatically program themselves for varying morning and evening traffic, and usually answer the call of a button within 25 seconds. President Percy L. Douglas, 60, is concentrating on increasing the company's worldwide business, and Otis now has 19,000 employees abroad...