Word: damn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Athletes, sex, and a touch of comedy usually wow 'em in the balcony, even those who are watching the movie. But Damn Yankees missed some where. Even the famous and controversial striptease scene fails to come...
...Ability to teach is, for the most part, not important. Sample quotes from hiring committees: 1) "The biggest thing is that other people think well of him." 2) "They're supposed to be able to teach, I guess." 3) "Our requirements are purely mathematical; no one gives a damn if you can teach." Scholarship appears to count for little more; the weight of scholarly articles is tallied, but seldom, committee members admitted, are the articles read. More than one university confessed that a socially presentable wife is one of the scholarly attributes it looks...
...gypsy temptress ("She kissed him. He kissed her. It was alive in him, and urgent"). Next stop, Paris: chimney pots against the sky, artist's life, nightlong arguments, more temptresses ("On the sixth day when Leah came to the studio he took her brutally in his arms. 'Damn you,' he shouted and gave her a long cruel kiss"). Last stop, the Riviera: clear sunlight, indolent and pagan bathers, the evening of life. Along the way are conducted side trips to World War I, the Spanish Civil War, marriage and the art forms of the Fauves, impressionists, cubists...
...Damn Yankees. Gwen Verdon, as the nimblest dancer in this or other worlds, and Ray Walston, as a button-down Beelzebub, in a bouncy remake of the Broadway musical...
...Then, I got gassed at the Wheatfields. Phosgene. The damn Wheatfields. We didn't have any air cover or artillery support. That's when a lot got it. Crawling out in the open." He turns his head and squints. "Gas?" he says. "Well, they used the phosgene, what I got; and chlorine; and the mustard gas shells mixed in with the regular barrage. You could tell when one hit, because it only made a kind of pouff! and then you'd see a mushroom spreading along the ground, like that smoke over there. Only there wasn't anywhere...