Word: close
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Edtorial Board demands only that its aspirants be versatile, articulate and opinionated. From its columns you can subtly manipulate the opinions of the paper's 10,000 readers. Your slightest frown will make theatres close, statesmen tumble, and deans resign...
Although the varsity's victory seems convincing enough, the team's showing yesterday is no assurance of a successful season. Providence was strong enough to post a respectable score against the Crimson, and the only thing that kept the Friars from making things really close for the varsity was their lack of depth. Many Ivy League teams may have sufficient second-line material to give Coach Bill McCurdy's perenially powerful team a rough treatment...
Rouleau, however, does far better as a director. In a series of remarkably effective close-up shots he manages to dramatically convey the tension, uncertainty, and fear of the people of Salem. Except for an overly chaotic courtroom scene, the picture is smoothly and intelligently handled. (George Auric's score, incidentally, masterfully underlines the terror of the townspeople...
...Fair Lady still leads the musical field, with The Music Man a close second, and Redhead (Gwen Verdon up), followed by Flower Drum Song, just about rounding the box-office turn...
...Fair-and the tastemakers of the era all sat in Aalto's curved plywood chairs. But as the glass-and-steel revolution sparked by Mies van der Rohe swept into power after World War II, Alvar Aalto (rhymes with hall-toe) dropped out of sight, seemed close to becoming architecture's forgotten...