Word: crookedness
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Someone in the British embassy noticed by the ads in Evening Moscow that the film Posledny Round (The Last Round) was playing in 21 movie houses at once. It turned out to be the story of a crooked U.S. gambler and an honest prizefighter.
Peering benevolently over the tops of his reading glasses, Georgia's canny Representative Carl Vinson clapped down his gavel and brought the proceedings to order. His Armed Services Committee had met to consider grave charges: that the Air Forces' controversial B-36 bomber, the nation's prime...
Casey Stengel was floating on a fleecy cloud. In his managerial cubbyhole at Yankee Stadium, Casey reclined dreamily upon a sofa, his short, crooked legs crossed, his gnarled hands clasped behind his head. "Best ball club I ever had," he kept repeating softly, as though he liked the sound of...
As a reporter for a small-town newspaper, Sarah has an easygoing role which she wears with relaxed assurance. She joins forces, romantically and politically, with a young editor (Norman Wooland) who is bent on exposing a crooked housing project backed by the town fathers. Meanwhile the camera, true to...
One Way Up. His new paintings are his best yet. Kingman composed each one as elaborately as a Chinese puzzle, lit them with hectic dabs and flashes of bright color, and peopled them with wistful or sometimes sinister figures that seemed to hover uncertainly about the edges of his pictures...