Word: closers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Born. To William Wyler, 42, short, swart director who graduated from bang-bang Westerns to a closer walk with art. (Wuthering Heights, Mrs. Miniver), and Margaret Tallichet Wyler, 30, almost Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind: their third child, first son; in Hollywood. Name: William Jr. Weight...
...years, a little English magazine called Horizon has come closer than anything in sight to filling the void left by the U.S.'s famed Dial (1880-1929) and T. S. Eliot's London Criterion (1922-39). Horizon's influence is out of all proportion to its 10,000 circulation...
Complicated & Simple. Yet, if fuzzy, Yes was by no means foolish. In its chip-shot fashion, it possibly came closer to revealing a French family disrupted by clashing political loyalties than something more dynamic and excitable would have done. Playwright Stein, who spent the war among such people, wanted "the audience to realize that French families were divided as our American families were divided in the Civil War, and it is complicated and simple." In Yes, Henry and his young brother Ferdinand become part of the Resistance; Henry's wife and her aristocratic family are pro-Pétain...
...yeah? Where's that you're going to school?" asked the cop, getting closer and sniffing suspiciously. The victim replied. "Repeat that!" he demanded, cocking his nose...
...death stepped closer, Unjebanenjebet was at last obliged to accept a hand-me-down: a roomy, elegant coffin of pink granite which had obviously belonged to a high priest of Amun. Then death came. Embalmers laid the General's linen-wrapped mummy in the secondhand sarcophagus, put the lid on, and built the coffin into its niche in the royal tomb...