Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...interservice rivalry, was to bring it back alive to prove that the Army had overcome a good portion, at least, of the re-entry problems.* To solve the homecoming problem, the Army disclosed last week, the nose cone displayed practically every type of electronic legerdemain except playing The Star-Spangled Banner...
Choice conducting plums have been dangled in Bernstein's face before, and he has turned them all down, except for a 1945-48 stint as full-time conductor of the now defunct New York City Symphony. Said he once: "I don't want to spend the rest of my life, as Toscanini did, studying and restudying, say, 50 pieces of music...
...Asian flu was no longer a big menace to crowd-filled movie houses. Boosting totals by some 1,500,000 adult admissions (a 5.4% increase over the previous week), a sudden moviegoing upswing ended a ten-week fall in attendance that had dropped 23.7% below the same 1956 period. Except for the Midwest, the reverse trend was nationwide, and the flu-thawed East boasted the highest jump...
Jayne Mansfield, cast as a swing-shift susie whose hair is "natural except for color," and who appreciates a uniform "to the fullest extent," fills a disproportionate amount of screen time, not to mention space. But the show is saved at almost every turn by Actor Grant. At 53, he is perhaps the only one of the older generation of movie heroes who can still walk into a closeup without pinning up his jowls. And even a bad line somehow seems great when Gary pays it out as smooth as tooth paste. As for a good line, he can drop...
GIMPEL THE FOOL, by Isaac Bashevis Singer (205 pp.; Noonday; $3.50) is a collection of twelve tales about Polish Jews who are important to nobody except themselves, God and the devil. In these pages Satan and all his imps lope through the swamps and forests of Galicia. tempting a vain girl with an enchanted mirror, destroying a placid marriage, debauching the entire village of Frampol with dancing, vodka and banknotes. God comes slowly after, not to punish Satan for his mischief, but to apply his lash to the backs of sinful Jews...