Word: damn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tough Damn Job. From this moment on, Paar is assured, professional, unfaltering. During each station break, after every commercial, whenever he is off camera, he finds a moment to lean over to chat with a guest, give instructions to an assistant director, and check the time schedule. The peering cameras, the prodding teleprompters, the signaling technicians seem not to bother him; he is at home. With Jack Douglas, head writer of his show, whom he puts on as a guest from time to time, he ad libs quickly and surely. With other guests, he is gentle, humble, anxious...
...Lindy comedians Jack so often criticizes, has dropped in to watch-as many show business pros do. Says Youngman: "This guy gives 200%; he wants to be double good. He gives out a feeling of love, that's why they look at this man. This is a tough damn...
...Naked and the Dead (RKO Tele-radio; Warner), to those who never read Norman Mailer's mammoth 1948 war novel, will seem a grim, visually gripping film. It is one of Hollywood's more rugged excursions so far into neorealism. The naughty words "hell" and "damn" are sprinkled like matinee popcorn through the script, and enough torsos are dismembered to satisfy Jack the Ripper. But those who read Author Mailer's bestseller will miss its biting honesty and unrelenting conclusion...
...troops had landed in Lebanon and two weeks later they were still there-men of many nations might damn that fact or praise it, but that did not change it. More than the blizzard of crisis words that crisscrossed the world last week, the simple fact of power-the physical presence of U.S. forces in the Middle East-shaped the world's thinking. Turkey and Iran, on the rims of the Nasser and Soviet empires, took heart at the news; many U.S. friends elsewhere joined neutralists in condemning the landings...
...federal intervention rang out in Washington and across the U.S. But calm, articulate Gabriel Hauge, sometime economics teacher at Princeton and Harvard, economics assistant to the President of the U.S. since the start of Ike's first term, counseled his boss to resist the pressures for inflation-breeding, damn-the-deficits programs. The downturn would halt during the year's second quarter, Hauge firmly predicted, and then an upturn would slowly...