Word: drowns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...worry. Wilder has the sense not to drown The Fortune Cookie in good will. If one or two of his and I.A.L. Diamond's screenplays have been funnier over-all, there has still been none in which as high a percentage of the jokes came off. This is largely due to the efforts of two veteran comics: Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon...
...thinks of himself as the trustee of the composer, lets the music speak for itself. His attack is clean, crisp and controlled, and he adheres to the dictum of his close friend Richard Strauss: the basic duty of the opera conductor is to buoy up rather than drown out the singers. Böhm's stickwork, as spare and exacting as needlepoint, is also an inheritance from Strauss, who, to contain his enthusiasm, often conducted with his left hand in his pocket. Years ago, during a Dresden performance of Die Frau, Strauss forgot himself and signaled a climax...
...ferocity and fecundity that is uniquely Filipino. The crooning of a tuko lizard in the night forests of Cavite is counterpointed by the rattle of gunfire as a cigarette-smuggling speedboat runs a customs blockade offshore. The big beat of jukeboxes in Manila's waterfront dives does not quite drown out the clink of cocktail glasses at the opulent Army-Navy Club. Manila newspapers splash crime news in Hechtian hyperbole across their front pages...
...African Methodist Episcopal Church, which has an all-Negro membership of 1,300,000. "What if the cry for freedom becomes a sound of a brick cracking through a store window, turning over an automobile in the street or the sound of the mob? If that sound should drown out the voices of reason, frustration will replace progress and all of our best work will be undone...
...girl is Starlet Janet Landgard, and the scene is from a movie called The Swimmer, now being filmed in Connecticut's Fairfield County, a quaintly sybaritic suburb of New York City. The picture is an adaptation of John Cheevers short story about Neddy's attempt to drown his troubles with what he thinks is a lark - a nine-pool, cross-country swim and portage to his home. But the real lark is for the Fairfield gawkers to watch a film com pany at work in their own backyards...