Word: ille
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jeer and snort, crouch and slither and spring. Beyond vitalizing their gang spirit and varying their modes of warfare, he has managed to dance much of the documentary drabness out of the story, most of the sociological shock into it. He is least successful in a ballet where the ill-fated lovers-a former Jet and the sister of a Shark-dream of a happy, peaceful Unpromised Land. Seeking the brightest possible contrast, the ballet has very little of Robbins and too much sweetness and lighting...
...Smith's test fails to screen out patients who may have reactions that develop more slowly. But for them there was good news also. Two doctors at the U.S. Naval Hospital in Great Lakes, Ill. reported that injections of penicillinase (an enzyme that destroys penicillin in the body), given along with antihistamines, will clear up most cases of rashes, fever, swelling and painful joints caused by penicillin...
...grafting politician until he turns the tables, learning at last that vice is its own reward. The preposterous little fable is funniest when played in deadly earnest. Playhouse 90 pitched it in a mood of self-conscious farce with blackouts to end each act, played it with an ill-starred cast. Comedian Ernie Kovacs as Topaze and Carl Reiner as the swindler heightened the effect of a rambling revue skit, did not so much dominate as swamp their roles with their familiar TV personalities. Still, in a medium that mines so much of its comedy from mothers and fathers...
Like many other newspapers abroad, the Japanese press played the news from Arkansas with ill-concealed relish. But Japan's most influential daily, Asahi Shimbun, pointedly reminded its readers that perhaps Japan is in no position to throw rocks at Little Rock...
...bred son of a linen peddler, Lindy came to the U.S. at 25, worked as bus boy and waiter. In 1921 he unveiled the first Lindy's just south of 50th Street. Soon his menu featuring gefüllte fish, blintzes and super-cheesecake, attracted the famed and ill-famed heroes of Broadway's big-spending '20s, and Lindy's became the prototype of Damon Runyon's "Mindy...