Word: heat
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Neither is Hotiana (Paul Mancusco), and with a vengeance. Hot is Kate's rival for the favors of a village mailman, and when she pleads, sounding like a duck in heat, for "Nothing But Him," it not only obscures the merits of the song but leaves a faint prickly sensation in the ears. Her briefer wishing-well plea for Joe is hysterical...
...that I write all the time. The problem is to shape all this into something viable. I am absolutely undisciplined. I write only when the spirit moves me. I'm one of the old fashioned people that depends on inspiration. I wrote my best poems in the white heat of realization and didn't change more than a few words...
More surprising were some omissions. Sidney Poitier was good in Dinner, better in To Sir, with Love, best of all in In the Heat of the Night. But this plethora of creditable performances apparently worked against him. Poitier got no nomination at all. One of the year's best-selling single records was the title tune from To Sir, with Love; a rock ballad, it was absent from the always conservative best-song list...
...efforts, the best performances still come from the audience. During one recent from the audience. During one recent film in which the screen goes black and a passionate panting can be heard, a colored kid in the first row cut loose with an enviable imitation of a cat in heat that made even the usher laugh...
...price estimates the DOD had been accepting with no proof were made without reuquiring the contractors to establish formal cost estimating systems. The DOD's own auditors have pleaded for 10 years to put an end to such guesswork. Contractors ignored them until the GAO started putting on the heat early last year...