Word: dooms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Carlisle into a major contribution. Helped by inspired writing to be sure, his long denunciation of Bolingbroke is superb acting. There is something noble and thrilling about an individual in the right willing to oppose the mob in the wrong even though he may be scaling his own doom. Thus has it always been: Antigone, Saint Joan, Sir Thomas More, Dr. Thomas Stockmann, Martin Luther King. Carlisle is of their company. In the play's final scene, Bolingbroke sentences Carlisle to live as a perpetual anchorite. Yet when Bolingbroke in the end decides to make a voyage of penance...
...Soviet agent sent to lure Bond to his doom was a voluptuous siren named Tatiana Romanova; though her "body belonged to the state," Boudoirsman Bond swiftly restored it to private enterprise. In one adventure, he did away with "the first of the great Negro criminals" who used voodoo the better to serve Marxism. On another occasion, he liquidated a sadistic Russian agent who had secretly taken over a Caribbean isle and was all ready to divert U.S. missiles launched from nearby Cape Canaveral. In one of his most brilliant coups, Bond thwarted a SMERSH fiend named Auric Goldfinger, who tried...
...them, and the hideous blockhouse, soul-destroying buildings, which are somehow typical of modern Iron Curtain architecture." In a mammoth exposition hall just outside Zagreb, Welles set up the 850 office desks, 850 secretaries and 850 clattering typewriters among which Kafka's hero, K, lived out his doom. Moving to Paris for later scenes, Welles picked the old, abandoned Gare d'Orsay (built for the Exposition of 1900, and now destined for demolition), whose baroque grotesqueries might well have been designed by Kafka; into its ruined corridors and dank corners Welles moved his props: the Advocate...
Ashurst stayed on in Washington-"It was a duty and a doom for me to stay away from Arizona." For two years, he held a job as a member of the Board of Immigration Appeals in the Justice Department. Then he retired altogether, emerging only occasionally into the spotlight. He appeared on TV's $64,000 Question, missed a question, won a consolation prize of a Cadillac, which he promptly sold. Hollywood gave him a bit part in Advise and Consent as "Senator McCafferty," who dozes through most of the picture except for intermittent mouthing of flowery rhetoric. When...
...back stoop, he delights in sentimental recollection, revels in his role as a teller of tall tales, at which only Mark Twain is his equal. Above all, Faulkner carries on the flagrant, 30-year love affair he has had with Yoknapatawpha County and its ornery, enduring and, until now, doom-ridden people...