Word: frantically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...story of the brightest star of the musical theater; songs by Cole Porter, Gershwin, Coward; Julie Andrews in the title role; all under the direction of Robert Wise, who made such box-office hits as The Sound of Music and West Side Story. Actually, the production is a hollow, frantic caricature-The Character Assassination of Gertrude Lawrence as Performed by the Inmates of Madame Tussaud...
Nixon, after a frantic conference with his civilrights squad, seemed to realize his Agnew-like blunder. Two days later, the retraction came. Picking up the hint, Ford led the House Republicans in an effort to overturn the Whitten rider...
...completely lost in these fifteen unusual minutes, just remember violence symbolizes sex, the dead mules on the piano symbolize sex, and ants symbolize masturbation.) Exploited sometimes as Bunuel's creation or more accurately as Dali's, Chien Andalou exhibits the most youthful characteristics in both. Dali's frantic desire to shock the bourgeoisie (viz. the eyeslicing) works with Bunuel's iconoclasm (the Christ-parody). In 1929, Bunuel derided the "imbeciles" who looked for beauty in this "despairing, passionate call to murder"; but from an aesthetic as well as a historical perspective, it's still worth seeing...
...signal barrier. Suddenly, like Ray Bolger bouncing onstage for a final bow, he is there before me, has waved hello, left three sentences hanging on the air like a vapor trail from a Boeing 707, and is breezing back inside before I even hear him : "It's-just-frantic-around-here-I've-been -on -the -phone - all-morning-now -I'm-talking-to-Melina-Mercouri...
...Rock Hudson but remaining a freckle-faced iron maiden to the fadeout. In this picture, she is equipped with a husband (Patrick O'Neal), but by pouting continually, she keeps him at arm's length. Morse, drugged on her sleeping potion, never gets to make anything but frantic motions. Thus if she is no longer precisely virginal, she remains constant...