Word: flashful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Could someone install a device on the common variety of telephone which will inform the telephone user, even though he is on the phone, when someone is trying to contact him ? Perhaps a light could flash, a buzzer buzz, or even a small shock be provided for those who still refuse to give up the line when someone is desperately trying the number...
...fails to exaggerate what is popular at the moment. If low necklines are in vogue, movie designers drop them a little lower; if padded shoulders are in this year, every Hollywood dress slightly resembles a football uniform. The result is that Hollywood's powdered, pinched, pushed, pneumatized darlings flash across the screen looking just a little bit more like what every American woman yearns to look like...
...Scott, is cordially disliked by most Sunmen. Swangard thought that Scott was too close to his staff to be a good boss, and had mistakenly tried to run the whole paper as a column. Boomed Swangard: "All I want is production. We don't need gimmicks and flash; we need hard-nosed reporting, honesty, accuracy and depth...
Valentino & Brando. Harry Belafonte's background is an arresting mixture of black and white ancestry, of Harlem harshness and the West Indian languor, of Broadway jazz caves, Greenwich Village hash houses, efficient modern recording studios. Throughout he has clung to a certain tough quality that can flash out as easily as his boyish smile. Recently TV Director Don Medford tried to define the key to Belafonte's dramatic magnetism: "Behind him is this hard core of hostility. Like Brando, Jimmy Dean, Rod Steiger, he's loaded with it." The quality lends a demon drive to Belafonte...
...Anna and takes his physical beating, he fights the tougher battle of a religious man trying to find the grace that will keep him spiritually sane. If Chance and Macgrady sometimes probe their souls to the edge of tiresomeness, Author Fielding always intervenes just in time with the flash and verve of a man who knows that a good story is the novelist's own form of salvation...