Word: fittings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...second-degree murder against Manhattan tin-can Manufacturer Mark Fein, 32, in the fatal shooting of his bookie (TIME, Nov. 20). The crime is punishable by 20 years to life. Second-degree murder is defined as killing in the heat of anger, without premeditation. The definition did not necessarily fit the circumstances of the Fein case, but the jury was not about to send a man to the chair on the say-so of the chief witness, Gloria Kendal, described by a defense attorney as "this procuress, this prostitute, this madam, this diabolically clever creature...
...Moses does not seem to fit the role of leader, he fits beautifully the role of teacher. He talks very quietly, very slowly, and very deliberately. "Ask Bob a question and you think he hasn't heard, the answer is so slow in coming," his father says...
...also includes Gloria Nelson, 38, an Iowa housewife who got into designing in a fit of pique while ironing the endless flounces and bows on her two daughters' party dresses. In the eight years since she went to work for the Eisemans, Mrs. Nelson has had an important hand both in originating styles and in practical innovations like the "add-a-hem" (an ingenious scheme by which hems may be progressively lowered over a four-inch span, simply by pulling one of a series of threads...
...Hordes of psychotic chipmunks slaughtering each other for nuts. But The Moon-Spinners, filmed in picture-book color on the island of Crete, turns out to be daft and breezy escapism assigned to a cast of flesh-and-blood actors headed by Hayley Mills. Given a plot that might fit snugly into the Nancy Drew mystery series, Hayley plays it with the knowing air of a junior-miss James Bond...
...these moments of self-confrontation. He began to draw himself at an early age--his 1898 "Self-Portrait with Soap Bubbles" is an idyllic scene of the fourteen-year-old Beckmann, facing sideways, blowing soap bubbles across a whole countryside of space. This leisurely, carefree, open stance does not fit him for long, for within three years he produces the 1901 drypoint self-portrait, showing himself poised in a scream. All the features of the face in this self-portrait work together to vent this scream--all except the eyes. The drawn muscles of the face, the stretched mouth...