Word: grab
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prime-time shows are recorded before showing, hence are readily exportable, while some 92% of BBC-TV originates live. White City's building complex is fittingly shaped in the form of a question mark. And the question to be answered is: What chance has BBC-TV to grab a share of the lucrative rerun market...
...window. The screen-a substitute for an air conditioner that had gone out of whack-was propped in place by a couple of towel-wrapped dumbbells. The maid removed one of the dumbbells but the oth er, an eight-pounder, rolled down the windowsill. The maid lunged to grab...
...high-caliber bullet. Last week, on camera for Hal Wallis' G.I. Blues, Juliet writhed and swiveled through a German nightclub jazz dance in a flesh-colored skirt sliced in panels from hem to hips. At a ringside table, a fat cat with slowly inflating eyes made an impassioned grab and caught the center panel, pulling her toward his lap. For his pangs, he was shot in the face with his own stein of beer. "Cut," called Director Norman Taurog, and a wardrobe woman rushed forth to sponge the foam from Juliet's snowy thighs...
Watching raptly off-camera, Elvis Presley also swiveled ("He would make a damn good dancer," says Juliet. "He's got fabulous rhythm"), made his own grab for the center panel a scene or two later, when he gave Juliet her first on-screen kiss. "Cut," said Taurog finally. "Cut. I said, 'Cut.' Do you hear me? Cut!" But Taurog merely got a wave from the hound...
Sport, which told about the kid-studded, American League$#151;leading Baltimore Orioles last week, now turns to the National League-leading Pittsburgh Pirates, whose manager, Danny Murtaugh, must cope with a grab bag of wildly assorted talents and temperaments...