Word: gabriel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...outskirts of Mexico City, where they steal, beat up a blind beggar, attack a legless man and commit murder. Filmed in Mexico as Los Olvidados (The Forgotten Ones), the picture was directed by Spam's onetime surrealist Moviemaker Luis Bunuel and photographed by Mexico's famed Cinematographer Gabriel Figueroa. The Young and the Damned is in the raw, realistic tradition of such classic juvenile-delinquency movies as the Russian Road to Life, the American Wild Boys of the Road and the Italian Shoe Shine. In some respects it is the most powerful and ruthless...
...Angel Gabriel? He would not, Newbold said, have appointed either man in the first place. When he was asked, "Has Vaughan been fired?" he replied, significantly, "Not yet." He was asked if he thought cabinet members who tolerated corruption should be fired. He answered: "What's so wonderful about a cabinet member?" He waxed sarcastic when someone wanted to know why Truman had ordered the cleanup drive. "Who," he intoned, "is to know whether the Angel Gabriel appeared to the President...
...ancient Rome the Vestal Virgins were six daughters of patrician families who were appointed at the age of six to ten to keep a flame constantly burning in the temple of Vesta, Rome's goddess of the hearth. Twenty centuries later, when Producer Gabriel Pascal got around to casting six Vestal Virgins for RKO's Androcles and the Lion (TIME, Oct. 15), no less than 2,200 hopefuls from Hollywood's horde of extras felt eminently qualified for the parts. One literal-minded applicant enclosed a medical affidavit certifying her eligibility, but many felt that photographs...
True, we have our share of eccentrics . . . but let me assure you that everyone in the Los Angeles area and especially those living in the San Gabriel Valley knew about and feared the exploits of Space Suiter Forrest Ray Colson...
...Ulysses less obscurely is a non-question," he declaimed. "It is equivalent to asking why a tree isn't a rock or why a motorcar isn't a horse." Toynbee did admit that some literary motorcars should try to be more like horses. "When Auden writes, 'Gabriel-I didn't mean to let that name out,' or when Miss Sitwell writes of 'Emily-colored hands,' they are clearly cheating," he said...