Word: constant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Best aspects: the tortuous, anarchic understanding of a bad world's infinite mezzotints of menace and blackmail; the constant twitching of city lights; the icily skillful use of the personalities of Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake; the finely stylized, underplayed scenes involving Howard da Silva as a cabaret owner. Will Wright as a house dick, Walter Sande as a gunman...
...enrollment at the school is 1080, of whom 501 are veterans and 579 have not seen service. For the summer term, 1300 students are expected, and of these 900 will be vets, while the fall term will add 300 more veterans, while the number of non-veterans will remain constant...
...otter fur hat by a Chinese Lily Dache at a formal dinner.) Once, smoking on Constitution Avenue, McGovern saw King coming. He stuffed the red-hot pipe into his pocket, threw King a salute-and scrambled down the street, his pants catching fire. Says he: "I lived in constant fear of courtmartial...
...work in a bookstore supported them both. He remembers the long stretch before he was drafted when he worked the night shift in a defense plant and he and Susan saw each other only on their way to & from their jobs. And he remembers Susan's constant desire for a child, and his own constant fear of it, so long as they were so desperately hard up and insecure...
...CRITICS: "There is a constant pull exerted . . . to write a bad review of a play. Critics in New York are made by their dislikes, not by their enthusiasms. Their bons mots, which are quoted and remembered, are always capsule damnations, cutting and sour. Their reputations, and I suppose their pay, depend, then, upon disliking plays . . . In no other art is there anything vaguely resembling this. . . . [Critics] become Shakespeare's peer. "It was better in France. There the critics were perceptive and corrupt. The managers paid them off and bought good reviews and the plays were left to the honest...