Word: falters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...contest at PBH grew tense as one by one the nine entrants began to falter. A graduate student at the Law School, Alan Hunt, came in second, puffing for 53 minutes, with Ira J. Rimson '56 lasting 46 minutes to place third. The New England record was 74 minutes...
...picture is uncannily enhanced by the musical score. The cold, otherworldly picking of the samisen snips the threads of reality one by one, and the audience floats free among music that tries to express the intimate noises of the toiling spirit. The photography never once permits this mood to falter. Even the most violent scenes are dissolved in a meditative mist, like terrors in the mind of a sage. The moviegoer has the sense of living in a classic Japanese watercolor or of walking on a world that is really a giant pearl...
Ever since his Wheeling speech, the Tribune has endorsed McCarthy editorially, spotlighted his probes in blaring headlines, and defended him with colored caricatures of his opponents. Only once did Colonel McCormick falter. When General Zwicker faced the Senator's invective, army veteran McCormick reflected and said: "It seems to us that Senator McCarthy will better serve his cause if he learns to distinguish the role of investigator from the role of avenging angel." But after two weeks of retrospect, the Tribune eased back into the Senator's fold: "Senator McCarthy has been trying to clean out some of the subversive...
...book by John Addey and Harvey McGregor does falter in spots, but the stickier lines lead into songs, and are necessary for shifting the mood from comedy to the romantic. Besides, anything that ushers Barnet on stage is forgiven many failings...
...family situation (a harried father, plagued by his precocious children, his inlaws, and his television), the action moves through several disconnected crises. Father kicks the TV set in the tube three times, argues with his wife, and discovers that his offspring talk knowingly about premarital relations. When these gags falter, there are always the in-laws to lampoon, not to mention a dumb blonde, included just to make sure no comical opportunities are missed...