Word: eying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Every time varsity baseball coach form Shepard talks about last season, gets a peculiar gleam in his eye...
...eye-sight is getting stronger again," an old man declared...
...decades, Western civilization has been edging away from the Biblical in junction of an "eye for an eye." In Britain, the death penalty (hanging) is now close to being abolished. In Europe, it survives only in France (guillotining) and Spain (garroting). Abolition has been slower in the U.S., but with the recent addition of Oregon, Iowa and West Virginia, the number of no-death-penalty states has risen to eleven. Last week the U.S. Bureau of Prisons reported a record low of 15 executions in 1964, compared with a yearly average of 167 in the 1930s...
...beginning, Cassidy is a simple revolutionary, spitting at the carriage trade while he digs ditches to support his mother (Flora Robson) and sister (Sian Phillips), both doomed to die in genteel poverty. The teakettle warmth of Irish family life simmers comfortably until Director Jack Cardiff plunges into the eye of street fights during the Transport Strike and the bloody Easter Rising of 1916, catching the awful impact of thudding billy clubs, of bullets and bombs and sudden death, letting his camera soak up the slaughter in pitiless detail...
Because Joel Martin is surrounded by such fine performances, it seems unfair to praise him excessively. Yet his subtle, dashing Macheath deserves every superlative in my critical vocabulary. With just a twinkle of his eye he tells you what he's thinking, makes you an accomplice in his delight. He and Philip Heckscher, as Macheath's helpmate filch, perfectly time their comic gestures to suit their songs. And they both have rich, pleasing voices. Richard Backus, as Locket, is the male counterpart of Miss Levine, a slapstick scene stealer with a comically mobile face. Unfortunately awkward, for he seems unsure...