Word: high
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sticky midsummer heat at Washington's Boiling Air Force Base last week, 3,000 Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps servicemen, high civilian brass and Congressmen turned out for a unique demonstration of interservice unity. They were there to salute two four-star Air Force generals who, in distinguished careers in World War II and the cold war, had come to symbolize that interservice unity. The generals: Otto P. Weyland, 57, boss of Tactical Air Command, and Earle Everard Partridge, 59, head of North American Air Defense Command-both at the point of retirement...
Besides this, Group 20 has had seasons of high artistic success and still lost money. And Falk's finest season was the one that put him most in the red. So let's not drag in the bogus issue of profit and loss...
...their next conversation together, Miss McKenna makes one serious mistake. It arises from the second of two noteworthy features of the play's language: (1) no other of the Bard's works contains such a high percentage of words or forms that occur only once in the author's entire output (these go under the technical name of hapax legomena); (2) no other of his works contains so large a proportion of lines that are susceptible of multiple readings, sometimes even to the point of totally reversing the meaning...
...traversal of the sleepwalking scene is highly unusual. She brings a good deal of volume and agitation to it; it is piched high. She moves about a lot, at one point with her hands held overhead as though reliving the time she had to carry the murder weapons back to the scene of the crime. And when she mutters those horrendous words, "Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?", she separates the last words and desperately wrings her hands in a vain attempt to loose them from her arms...
Marguerite Tarrant's Lorraine is a striking portrayal of a high-living, overglamorous star. And she is pleasant to look at in her stunning dresses and jewelry. John Wolfson brings the proper affectation to the part of a thinly-disguised Noel Coward; and Erich Segal is a colorfully mad Hollywood type...