Word: closing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last week that Humphrey had already offered the vice-presidential nomination on his ticket "to every Southern Governor." When pressed as to his source, Sorensen insisted: "I know he has." Which governors in particular? "Right across the board." The idea of Humphrey putting Lester Maddox or Lurleen Wallace as close to the presidency as the proverbial heartbeat is, of course, bafflegab, and Sorensen himself later backed away a bit from his initial assertion...
...Budapest, a conference of national Communist parties, convening behind closed doors, did little to cement the cracks of disunity. Only 52 of the 88 invited parties bothered to come to the session, which was sponsored by the Russians. At week's end, those who did come were reported close to an agreement on an agenda and a date for a Communist summit conference in Moscow that the Kremlin has been promoting for years. The leaders had trouble, however, disguising the fact that most of the bloc will welcome such an event with a lack of enthusiasm bordering on dismay...
...Broun is very much the lovable professor. As such, his lectures demand an attentive ear. While the copy of most sportscasters rarely rises above the conversational, his prose is styled after "the measured, galloping elegance of the 19th century sportswriters." As one fan told him: "I just like to close my eyes and listen...
Fielding made the difference. The Springfield pitcher held the usually booming Crimson bats silent, and it was only on errors and close fielding plays that the home forces were able to get on base. The Yardling defense, as usual, was airtight...
There is no space here to describe more than a few of the iconic images which crowd the film: the old King's breath freezing in the chill sunlight of his vast hall, Hotspur's (Norman Rodway) peripatetic motion caught by a camera tracking in tight close-up, the gross Falstaff beside the cruelly emaciated Justice Shallow (Alan Webb), Doll Tearsheet (Jeanne Moreau) demonstrating how a tender and accomplished whore might satisfy an impossibly fat old patron. The Battle of Shrewsbury is simply the finest, truest, ugliest war footage ever shot and edited for a dramatic movie. Welles fills Falstaff...