Word: eyeing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good side of Mussolini's Fascists, was sent to Rio de Janeiro as business manager for Italy's LATI airlines. The war ended his job; after that he eked out a meager existence as a translator. Committed to a Rio charity ward, blind in one eye and partly paralyzed, he said not long ago: "I guess the only news about me that most people want to hear is my death." Last week, at 66, Get-Rich-Quick Ponzi made news for the last time...
...like nothing at all-which was just the way Arp and his tight, bright circle of admirers wanted them. Albers' work was mathematically precise; Arp's cloudy figures were elaborately pointless: in all their polished bulges, holes, twists and suave concavities there was nothing to stop the eye, the hand, or the mind...
...Hayes; produced by Charles P. Heidt) was the worst sort of drivel-the pretentious sort. Dredging up everything stark, fleshly and Freudian in the theater from early O'Neill to Tennessee Williams, it became a kind of Carryall Named Desire. Without taste or talent, ear for speech or eye for character, Playwright Hayes showed how a city boy's dissolute family and a country girl's disapproving one worked to prevent their marrying. Seldom has the course of true love run rougher-among souses and trollops, past theft and rape. Love eventually triumphed, but Leaf and Bough...
...California's Santa Anita, richest and most prosperous of all, attendance in the first 20 days of the winter season was down 24.4% from last year (partly as a result of bad weather); betting had slumped $10,459,016. Said one horseman last week, casting a cold eye over the thin turnout: "This is more like it. Racing was getting to be a honky-tonk-too many people...
...facts right as on most other newspapers, but to be sure to toe the line. In its tortuous progress (sometimes with no advance notice from Moscow) many a staffer has been caught zigging when he should have been zagging. The commissars also keep a watchful eye on the personal lives of all employees (present total: 57, including business staff). Since the staff employees are all party members, they are subject to the party's discipline, which rules out such bourgeois reporters' vices as office parties and poker games. Staffers caught breaking the rules must apologize in public meetings...