Word: corners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then he asked Beer if it would be all right to have Kennedy sitting on the corner of the desk, since it was necessary to get him into the discussion as well. Beer agreed. "It's completely bogus, but it's all right...
None of the Loesser score is truly bad, and the middling level of the music is sustained throughout. The most satisfying songs are written for vocal trios or quartets or the entire ensemble. Probably the best, which may well be disk-jockey bait, is "Standing on the Corner, Watching the Girls Go By." Other good tunes include "La Pudanza," "Happy to Make Your Acquaintance," and "I don't Know Nothing About Her." The rest are generally dull, and because the show has no pretension to comedy, the production must lean heavily on its music...
...where they were. In cities they had made motels of many an empty shelter, such as the half-finished garage they occupied in Vienna. Gradually, however, they developed a technique of cadging better quarters. Seeking out a local inhabitant, explained Cowell, "we'd just ask for some little corner to put our cots in; then gradually we'd move up into the master bedroom. It is always after you meet the wives that you make progress. They all start becoming mothers wh :n they find you have no place to sleep...
London's historic Grosvenor Square has been a stamping ground for Americans ever since 1785, when John Adams, first U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, moved in at No. 9, on the corner of Brook Street. But though U.S. offices clustered so thickly around the square in World War II that Londoners called the area "Eisenhowerplatz" (now "Little America"), the U.S. never got around to building its own embassy. Last week London buzzed with the news that in Grosvenor Square the U.S. will 1) build a new $3,000,000, five-story embassy, probably...
Bacon's unorthodox strokes were working to perfection as he took the first two games, 15-12 and 15-10, from the top-seeded Heckscher. His crushing forehand and backhand wall shots and deceptive corner shots were too much for Heckscher, as all his power and finesse could not stop the third seeded Bacon...