Word: deaths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...front of you, you can't get the discipline. But don't get me wrong, I'm not a realist; painting is not that easy, it's not copying. Why, if I do one good picture in a year I'm tickled to death...
...Breckinridge's desk saying that the next of kin were offering the eyes of a man dying in a Cincinnati hospital. Mrs. Breckinridge arranged for an airline to fly them east, carefully refrigerated in salt solution (results are best when eyes are removed an hour after death and used within three days...
Shankar has included about 60 dance sequences-of peasants and gods, love and death, of factories and demons. Swords clash and warriors strut; lovers grieve and stab themselves; workers are whipped; gods curse; a group of students rebel against their teachers. In all these dances, Shankar uses only Indian instruments, the ancient ragas (modes), and the hundreds of gestures-a bent finger, a turned-up toe, a roll of the eyes-that have carried the same meanings to Indians for centuries...
...formula seems to work for Producer John C. Wilson; he also put on her last show, Jean Cocteau's The Eagle Has Two Heads, a bad play that tempted Tallulah because it gave her a 17-minute monologue and a chance to do a queenly death scene tumbling down a flight of red-carpeted stairs...
Miss Tatlock's Millions (Paramount) gives Writer-Producer Charles Brackett another chance to practice his favorite sport of skating on dangerously thin ice. Brackett and his fellow worker Billy Wilder are virtually the only Hollywood practitioners, since the penalty for breaking through the ice is almost certain professional death. Brackett and Wilder have already managed to make movies around such dynamite-loaded topics as divorce, alcoholism, adultery-plus-murder, illegitimacy, the black market in Germany...