Word: disappear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unprecedented. For once, Tristan's ravings in the third act seemed only five times too long instead of ten or twenty or a hundred." Vinay's phrasing, particularly when set off against Flagstad's magnificent subtlety, seemed more memorized than inspired. But that defect might well disappear with time...
...almost as expensive. He became a lieutenant and acting captain, and quickly fell into the pattern which Chicagoans expect of their police captains-a rich man's life on a copper's pay. He made a fetish of wearing a hat and, as his hair began to disappear in later years, he even kept one on while eating in the classiest restaurants. "I'd rather be caught dead than without a hat," Drury often explained...
...nothing can head off bloodshed, which is a good thing for the picture. Director Anthony (Winchester '73) Mann whips up some first-rate shots of furious hand-to-hand fighting and battle scenes featuring the flinging of dynamite sticks as hand grenades. Swarms of sheep disappear in billowing explosions, the Indian stockade is blown to shambles, and it finally takes the U.S. Cavalry to deal Taylor death with honor...
...domination, the work of Egyptian sculptors "was still pharaonic art, made more interesting by a restrained exoticism." But, says Drioton sadly, the day came "when sculptors . . . tried to treat the drapery of the toga like the costume of the pharaohs . . . When Egyptian sculpture reached this point, it could only disappear...
...food they carry little wafers. One wafer was dunked in a gallon of water. "It swelled up and overflowed. It was fed to guinea pigs and they thrived on it." On another memorable occasion, Dr. Gee saw several little men hop into an undamaged space saucer and make it disappear like a "hallucination...