Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their own sake. "Once a community automatically begins to consider disinterested curiosity as being something idle, time-wasting, self-indulgent and, therefore, immoral, it is in a very bad way . . . Few great works of art, or great discoveries of science, have ever been made by men with one eye on the social consequences of their activity...
...some "Golden Rules for Conductors" the maestro admonished crustily: "Remember, you are not playing for your own fun, you are playing for the enjoyment of the audience . . . Never let the horns and woodwinds out of your eye; when you hear them at all, they are already too loud . . . The left hand has nothing to do in conducting an orchestra. Keep it in your vest-pocket and use it only occasionally to hush an instrument. . . Don't conduct with your arms, conduct with your ears...
...Irving L. Jacobs in association with David Merrick) is one of those "trifles light as air"-and very welcome in a theater where they are usually heavy as lead. Unlike most writers whose subject is sex and whose object is laughter, Playwright Levy (Springtime for Henry) possesses the gleaming eye of wit and the gloved hand of worldliness. Clutterbuck has the usual drawbacks of paper-thin comedy but it offers a good deal more than the usual rewards...
...rooms) hotel, had stood like a half-filled honeycomb as a monument to the folly of its builders. The Army used it as a barracks at the beginning of the war, and in 1943 Chicago Contractor Stephen Healy bought the white elephant and caught Hilton's eye by making it pay in the war boom that was suddenly filling all hotels. But when Hilton began to bargain for the Stevens, he met his match in Healy. The contractor jacked up the price three times, until Hilton suddenly let it be known that he was going after the Palmer House...
...Hara is cast as a Bedouin of some means who migrates from England in order to live with her father. When she is informed that Pa has been bumped off by a local band of rowdies known as the Black Robes, nothing will do but she must get an eye-for-an-eye and all that by eliminating the ringleader of the boys in black...