Word: curtness
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...busy rebuilding the team's dilapidated farm system and hunting for promising young players. "The secret of a good trade," Mauch says, "is not to try to fool anybody. They know the score as well as you do." Sometimes even better. Occasionally, a deal went sour: Pitcher Curt Simmons got his unconditional release in 1960, has beaten the Phillies 13 times since...
...bloodletting that drains away the lives of people who live within the intimacy of the family without being intimate. Ostensibly, the moment is an occasion of joy. Timmy Cleary (Martin Sheen), son of John (Jack Albertson) and Nettie Cleary (Irene Dailey), has come home safe from World War II. Curt with one another, the parents both love the son and engage in a competition for his affections. But the boy has come back with a stubborn thirst to be his own man. In petty and profounder ways, things go wrong...
...first episode pries into a decadent country villa where wealthy Industrialist Curt Jurgens is dying upstairs while his son Sami Frey throws a wingding below. Suffering through the Oedipal conflict, language dubbing and dense cinematic trickery are Jurgens' wife Alida Valli and daughter Susan Strasberg. Among the more perceptive waiters hired for the revels is Hero Renato Salvatori, who abruptly exclaims: "What a house-lonely, sad, mean and rotten!" Salvatori heads home to Milan, only to find more moral chaos. Jean Sorel is so alienated that he goes to a party and seduces his own wife, luscious Antonella Lualdi...
...signs. Their bright, unmixed colors are so unpainterly that his brush stroke cannot be detected, because, as he says, "impasto is visual indigestion." Usually they are ringed with inscriptions: phrases from Melville and Whitman, or commands in broken stencil type such as EAT, HUG, LOVE, DIE, or ERR. These curt verbs, he believes, represent the vocabulary of the American dream, the "optimistic, generous, and naive" philosophy of plenty that is often mistaken for all the philosophy that the U.S. lives...
...always speaks his mind, Power antagonized McNamara by the bluntness of his congressional testimony last August against the nuclear test ban treaty. At that time the Joint Chiefs, including Air Force Chief of Staff Curt LeMay, favored the treaty-at least publicly. Like LeMay, Power has expressed concern about overreliance on missiles, and urged the development of a new bomber-issues that Senator Barry Goldwater has raised politically and that McNamara has tried to refute...