Word: deadpan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hustling Heath. Billy Southworth's Braves didn't seem quite the pennant type, either. Said one rival National League manager: "They wait around until you boot a ball or make a wild throw, and then you're cooked. Not an exciting team to watch . . . looks deadpan. But it hustles." Southworth had kept them hustling, even after they had cinched the pennant, so as not to lose their fighting edge. Last week, hustling in a game with Brooklyn that didn't matter, hard-hitting Outfielder Jeff Heath broke his ankle sliding into home plate, and was lost...
This picture, like Miracle, creates conviction by a deadpan treatment of fantasy - and works its miracles with a minimum of photographic hocuspocus...
Percentage Player. The John Lardners and their three children winter in Greenwich Village, summer on Fire Island, two hours away. A good drinking companion and quiet, deadpan humorist, Lardner is a cautious horse player, a brilliant poker player, and master of the "match game" at Jack Bleeck's newspaper saloon...
Married. Martha Graham, 46, deadpan high priestess of the modern dance (and radio's Miss Hush of 1947); and Erick Hawkins, 39, her dancing partner; both for the first time; in Santa Fe, N.Mex...
...West, was sued for $100,000 by two writers who claimed that she swiped their stuff for her play, Catherine Was Great. Unruffled, Mae was putting on a good act in court, with the prosecution lawyers as her straight men. What was her first literary effort? "Sex," she said, deadpan. Why couldn't she remember the sequence of Catherine's 300 lovers? "I can't remember the order. No woman could." Well, why didn't she put all the lovers in the play? "Look," she replied, "I did the best I could in a couple...