Word: cues
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seeming brick wall began to billow out like laundry in a high wind. Moments later, while Douglas and Lindfors were waltzing soulfully inside a cozy restaurant, they were abruptly doused with a thick flurry of snow. Hustling his lady through the blizzardy streets, where the cornmeal snow fell on cue, Douglas swept her into his bachelor den. As they shed their coats, snow cascaded to the floor. Next morning, when they came downstairs, the room was still snowy...
Just Plain Harry Harry Truman plays no role better than that of a colloquial, foot-scraping, friendly fella from out there in Missouri. Last week, his 358th week in the presidency, he ran through the part of just plain Harry without missing a cue or flatting a tone...
...fact, it is an open question whether he can act at all. "How often do I gotta tell you (thus Wayne to a persistent interviewer) that I don't act at all-I re-act." By this, Wayne means that on the set he responds to a cue precisely as he would in his own backyard, regardless of what the script and the director may say. John Wayne, at 44, is 1) a businessman who firmly believes in the profitable product he sells, and 2) a craftsman who has learned his trade...
...very funny, but nobody laughed. Then Director Ford, still sitting down, gave the cue: he threw back his head and rocked with laughter. From that moment, Duke began to revere John Ford. Not to be outdone, Ford gave the youngster his fatherly affection. "I could see," Ford says now, "that here was a boy who was working for something-not like most of the other guys, just hanging around to pick up a few fast bucks. Duke was really ambitious and willing to work. Inside of a month or six weeks we were fast friends, and I used to advise...
According to Nature. Cézanne liked to say that what he saw in nature was "the cylinder, the sphere, and the cone," though what he painted was hardly so chill or so simple. The cubists took their cue from his words, called him a father of modern art. Cézanne would not have appreciated the intended compliment; theories bored him, and his pictures were translations of what he saw, not demonstrations of what he thought...