Word: curtness
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Omar Bradley, Matt Ridgwayand Max Taylor, Nate Twining and Curt LeMay, Arthur Radford and Arleigh Burke-the very names still conjure up images of flaming cannon, of contrails across enemy skies, of destroyers heading into battle at flank speed. It detracts nothing from their successors to say that the names of "Bus" Wheeler, "Johnny" Johnson, "Dave" McDonald, "J. P." McConnell and "Wally" Greene are hardly household words...
...Artist, I am a Man, I am a Failure," Him tells Me, and throughout the play he expands on this theme, trying to explain himself to her. In the first and third acts, as the dialogue resonates between curt exchanges and wandering metaphorical soliloquies, the two bicker, muse, pet, and search vainly for common understandings. Their scenes together are separated by snatches of brash caricature in which "three weird sisters" babble deliriously: "Anything, Everything, Nothing, and Something were looking for eels in a tree, when along came Sleep pushing a wheelbarrow full of green mice...
Possibly, in Alamo, Calif, (pop. 2,300), Lawyer George Finn didn't watch the World Series on TV. When he signed a lease for a client who was renting a home to St. Louis Cardinal Curt Flood, 26, it came as a shock to Finn that Flood was a Negro. Such a shock, in fact, that he snatched the key, threatening to shoot Flood if he took possession. With the aid of a locksmith, Flood moved in anyway, with his wife Beverly, 25, and their four children, to be greeted with cheers by practically every family on the block...
...tired of hiding my Jeep," bellows the lord of the manor, Curt Jurgens. To please his eccentric sister, he dresses in period costume and banishes all evidence of the 20th century from the family's isolated ancestral estate in the Swedish lake country. Jurgens' second wife is Monica Vitti, a sultry charmer who enjoys a casually incestuous relationship with her brother Sébastien (Jean-Claude Brialy) and soon begins cooing with Cousin Eric (Jean-Louis Trintignant...
...Horns. The Cards certainly did try. After 8½ innings, the two teams were locked in a tight, 1-1 pitching duel. Then Cardinal Starter Curt Simmons gave way to Reliefer Barney Schultz, an ancient knuckleballer who had knocked around 19 teams in 21 years. Up came Mickey Mantle, whose second error of the Series had set up the lone St. Louis run. "I was wearing the horns," said Mantle afterward. "I had to do something." Schultz threw-a knuckle ball that didn't quite knuckle. Mantle swung-and hammered a drive that was still climbing when it bounced...