Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...beam of a glaring spotlight. "I can't see you; oh, this light is terrible," he cried to one couple as his own limelight blinded him. "You look completely black to me." The couple whispered an explanation : they were dressed in skintight black. Guest after guest fell into deep curtsies before the marquis. One old lady in a crinoline was so moved that she had to be helped to her feet. When the last curtsy was dropped, the marquis flung his cloak off to preside in a gold union suit at the presentation of 21 "tableaux," which were watched...
...decorously with his second wife and his son and daughter by his first marriage (which ended in divorce in 1933). He drove his own car and often walked to work, stopping at a street stand along the way for a drink of tamarind juice. Surrounded by flashy ministers deep in all sorts of deals, Ruiz Cortines held his peace. But once, after hearing of one official's latest coup, he remarked: "I can't understand it. He has so much money. Why does he go after more...
...life. That was the day that he became boss; the man who had always been in second place moved into first. As the red, green and white sash of the presidency was draped across his chest, observers noted that his hand moved gently across the silk and his deep-set brown eyes lit up. Then he stepped confidently to the rostrum and spoke words that soon wiped the big smile off the face of Miguel Alemán. "Government-protected monopolies must end," said the new President. "I will demand strict honesty from all. I will be inflexible with public...
Often the patient is not consciously aware of the cause of his illness, and usually its roots are buried deep in the past. Whatever the cause, the effect is to make the patient feel that he cannot go on, and often those around him feel that they cannot go on with him. Something must be done-something short of commitment to a state hospital, and yet something more than periodically seeing a psychiatrist in an office...
Many a Hollywood movie lacks a real theme, but practically every movie these days has a theme song. The man on top of the trend is Dimitri Tiomkin, a 54-year-old concert pianist turned composer, who made a deep impression on the industry and the rest of the U.S. with one folksy tune: Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darling (from High Noon...