Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stolen from Shakespeare and Virgilianized"). To give the sprawling work a proper production and still hold it to a manageable 4½ hours (with only minor cuts), Covent Garden prepared lavish sets and drew on all its artistic and mechanical resources. Sir John Gielgud got his first crack at opera direction. Mezzo-Soprano Blanche Thebom (with all six feet of her hair unwound) was cast in the ear-rending role of Dido, Queen of Carthage, and Conductor Rafael Kubelik presided over a 150-man orchestra and an assortment of behind-the-scenes instrumentalists and vocalists for offstage choruses and flourishes...
Having come within one word (afflatus) of winning last year's Scripps-Howard National Spelling Bee, dark-haired Sandra Owen, 14, of Navarre, Ohio, had thought of practically nothing else but boning up for another crack at the title. Her second chance came last week when the 67 finalists assembled in the Commerce Department's auditorium for this year's bee in Washington...
...States." It was. Muscular Olympian Tom Courtney ran himself into exhaustion in a spectacular 880-yd. race, beat his Melbourne teammate Arnie Sowell by 1½ seconds, set a new world's record (1:46 8) and announced that he was now ready to take a crack at the four-minute mile...
...Bayne was only one of thousands of Seattleites talking and thinking about Teamster Boss Dave Beck last week, as the nation's 20th largest city examined its conscience for having let Beck, a longtime resident, use Seattle as his oyster. To be sure, Beck used a bludgeon to crack open his oyster; it was the bludgeon of Teamster power. Equally true, Seattle at first accepted Beck with the greatest reluctance and mostly because it seemed a choice between him and the Red-led waterfront boys of Harry Bridges. But once Seattle did accept Beck, it went on to cloak...
...turn this rag, tag and bobtail of epigram, anecdote, whimsy and general small beer into a movie was, according to Sturges, "like trying to make a film of the telephone directory." But, except for a few wrong numbers, Director Sturges has done the trick with a controlled crack. pettiness that will take many moviegoers back to The Great McGinty (TIME, Aug. 26, 1940) and even farther back to the bladder farces of silent days...