Word: deadpan
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...about making history than reporting it, and NBC laid on durable old (78) Hans V. Kaltenborn (it was his 18th convention) with his blackboard doodlings and a lofty contempt for all the fancy new gadgetry. The NBC tète-à-tètes were again larded with the deadpan humor of Commentator David Brinkley. Between conventions, ABC's baggy-eyed John Daly squeezed in a Manhattan trip to appear on What's My Line?, reported: "The panel told me I look tired. Well, how the hell was I supposed to look...
Runners-up in the honors department: NBC's able Chet Huntley and young (36), deadpan David Brinkley, who this year teamed up for the first time to add zest and drollery−a rare convention commodity−to the otherwise dull goings-on. Occasionally this new NBC team even had the edge on the traditionally good CBS reporting staff...
This gutty description, which introduces a technical discussion of tropical amoebae, comes from the distinguished pages of the oldest medical journal in the English language. It is a fair sample of the unvarnished style and the deadpan humor that mark the weekly Lancet as the sprightliest and most outspoken voice in medical journalism...
Lady Sings the Blues has the tone of truth. Whether it is Singer Holiday's own style or Journalist-Friend William Dufty's professional hand, the book's deadpan manner is a little chilling. No matter how it is told, hers is a chilling story. Billie sings a sad, sad song...
What has given News of the World a fond place in every second British home is a simple formula: deadpan reporting of crime, from adultery to zooerastry, in almost all the exhaustive (and libel-proof) detail of the court transcript. "We are not a sensational paper," says the paper's creed. " 'Sensation' means making a lot out of nothing. We give facts, simply present all the news." Thus, in columns rife with rape, the paper never descends to such pseudo-glamorous tabloid cliches as "voluptuous" or "comely" to describe a victim; it simply tells the reader...