Word: cleverer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...finally "Yeh-heh-heh-hes, Baby," I think I'll give up my citizenship. Not that I don't want to be an American, but I think the public would exile me anyway if I came back singing a square, old, lovely ballad or a song with clever lyrics...
...Group 20 people did just about everything well. Director Jerome Kilty worked out a clever gimmick to facilitate the playing of the two twins by one actor, kept most of his cast over-acting to about the right degree, and at the same time managed to make Isabelle, the danseuse, a rather true-to-life and attractive character. The setting by William Roberts was very good--ornate but not cluttered--while his lavish costumes fitted well with the generally exaggerated style of acting...
...severe and implacable critic. Never again will I remain silent when I can recognize injustice, regardless of how that injustice may be wrapped in the dirty linen of expediency or necessity. Never again will I fail to question, to demand proof. Never again will I accept the 'clever' rationale, which appears to make sense but under scrutiny does...
...floor to set a new world record, broke two other marks in the process. Anderson's performance: 335 Ibs. in the snatch, 440 Ibs. in the clean and jerk. He pressed only 400 Ibs., just missing his own record of 408 Ibs. ¶ Keeping up the clever, carefully planned tennis that has made her virtually unbeatable since she started her foreign tour last fall, the U.S.'s Althea Gibson (TIME, June 4) staved off a last-set rally by Britain's Anne Shilcock, won the Surrey County title at Surbiton, England, 6-3, 13-11, for her17th...
This was a clever way to finance the huge Italian Communist Party, the biggest west of the Iron Curtain (estimated 1,600,000 members). "The party cannot exist on dues," says Reale frankly. Apparently, however, the profits have been too big for individual Communists to leave solely to the party. Two years ago Augusto Doro was accused of making lucrative side deals for personal gain while manager of the oldest Red trading agency (SIMES) in Milan. Shortly afterward Eugenio Reale himself quit all his party offices, including his key post overseeing the foreign-trade agencies...