Word: faint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...away. A radio ham in New Jersey picked up a faint signal: "This is Cuba calling. Where will help come from? This is Cuba calling the free world. We need help in Cuba." In Miami, Miró Cardona and the Revolutionary Council finally broke silence to issue a statement. They had radioed the men at the Bay of Pigs to ask whether they wished to be evacuated. The answer: "We will never leave this island...
...lyrics by Bob Merrill) sets to music the traditional Continental world of the small, bedizened, sad-eyed circus troupe-a world not of popcorn but of pony ballets, with a touch of childlike innocence redeeming its tawdriness. Carnival! is, in fact, out of the movie Lili, with a faint echo or two of Liliom; it celebrates a milieu whose romantic lure is born of its realistic hardships, a milieu almost symbolically touching for its way of suggesting the loneliness in crowds, the heartbreak in gaiety, and the homelessness of perky circus wagons...
...seems, as one British observer has remarked, that the members of the House of Representatives "would rather not be right than be ex-Congressmen." It seems that all but two of the faint-hearted men of the lower chamber are infinitely anxious not to oppose the colorless but powerful man who has made himself Poobah of American patriotism...
...muddle of tone. It is here that the matter of production becomes crucial: a play so nonchalant and brittle needs more than the intelligent off-Broadway staging it has been given. It needs more gloss, more speed, more edged insouciance, needs the light shrug, the swift glance, the faint smile, the finished gesture, the unfinished comment that endow the semi-frivolous with airiness and enlarge the semi-serious into an attitude...
...soon as he saw that it was alive though blue from oxygen deprivation. While he stitched up the mother, he snapped at the nurses in their own Shan dialect - they were having difficulty, even using oxygen, in getting the baby to breathe. When the baby gasped its first, faint squawks, tough old Surgeon Seagrave's relief was as obvious as that of the softest hearted televiewer...