Word: casts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...former active Stalinist got two outright nays. The worst treatment was given former Stalin Prizewinner Leon Kruczkowski, who hit four nays and seven abstentions. But the most excitement was caused by a single vote raised against the re-election of Premier Jozef Cyrankiewicz. Said the man who cast the vote: "I just don't like him." Nothing like it had happened in Poland in a long time...
...pocket, fed by hidden jets, ignited and enveloped Jean in fire. Chortling make-believe satisfaction a moment before, the film extras now screamed in dead earnest. After foam extinguishers doused the blaze, Jean, luckily only singed, was carried off by a studio cop and a hooded executioner from the cast. Later, through her ointment, Jean, only a year or so out of bobby-sox, offered a thoroughly unsaintly version of her martyrdom: "I smell like a singed chicken. At first, I didn't know what was happening. Then I felt myself going pffft...
German-born Rudolph Dirks was the first U.S. cartoonist to develop a plot with a series of consecutive panels and a permanent cast of characters, the first to enclose all his dialogue in balloons. His Kids, christened Katzenjammer (German slang for hangover) by a Journal editor, became a classic over Dirks's protests. "People will get sick of this stuff," he insisted. But the kids caught on, soon gathered the supporting cast that still appears in both strips: long-suffering Mama; Der Inspector, a white-bearded truant officer; and Der Captain, a seafaring disciplinarian ("Spare der rod und spoil...
...talks of a jazz series, a high-toned dramatic series, and a children's program which will "excite youngsters [he has five of his own] into involvement with the world." All he needs, says Saudek, is "the well-conceived idea, the well-written word, the well-cast performer and the well-spent dollar." And he believes that all of them are within reach...
XIII. What cast his work into the shadow was the rule of King Louis XIV, who favored the glorifying allegories and myths of the classic style, abhorred naturalism and humanism. Shown a work by one of La Tour's fellow realists, Louis le Nain, the Sun King snorted: "Take those maggots away from...