Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plan worked-except for one hitch. The three boys went down to the graveyard wall, loaded the rifle, sat down and waited for Daniels Sr. They waited for two hours. But when he finally lurched down the street, mounted the steps of his house and sat down, another one of his sons was sitting there. Marty Daniels, afraid he might hit his brother, passed the rifle to Marksman Ray. "Here," he said, "you do the shooting. You're a better shot than I am." Marty's dad was sitting with his knees up to his chest...
...embarrassed U.S. Navy hastily evacuated the Rongelapese to two distant islands. Navy doctors treated and kept close check on the 45 who had suffered burns. Except for some skin discoloration, they all recovered with no serious permanent damage. But for a while the transplanted Rongelapese were bitter. "We done no wrong," they said. "We no understand why we should be punished...
...escape. At one point the young refugees, trapped amidst some NATO ground maneuvers, totally thwart the efforts of a pushbutton general (hammishly caricatured by Michael Redgrave) to pinpoint them, even outwit his dread Operation Meatloaf ("Not intended for use until the Red army is actually in Trafalgar Square"). Amusing except when it pleads ponderously for international understanding, The Happy Road eventually reunites everybody in Paris, hints that Gene and Barbara will henceforth travel on the family plan...
...unalterably to the final catastrophe like a runaway steamroller grinding down a hill. But the conflict between Iago and Othello (if we can call it a conflict, for it is a battle in which one of the two combatants does not realize there is a battle at all, except within himself) does not start at once. Iago's scheme has a long incubation period, which we in the audience watch with suspense until it bursts out and sweeps us along with it. Now this incubation is hidden from the others on stage; so Shakespeare skilfully wrought a preliminary though related...
...well as a consummate singer, and I found her performance here even more exalted than on Broadway. All the other singers were fine, notably Norman Adkins, Ruth Kobart, Lydia Summers and Leon Lishner. Chandler Cowles' staging was first-rate; and Evan Whallon's handling of the orchestra was expert, except for letting the piano play too loudly...