Word: interrupting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...main sports arena, a 4,000-seat auxiliary arena, a 28-story luxury hotel, a 34-story office building, and parking facilities for 3,000 cars. Only the sub-street-level waiting room and the train concourse will be kept of the old Penn Station. In order not to interrupt train service, the builders will install a reinforced concrete slab at street level before razing the superstructure of the station...
Nearly everyone present was in the ad business, but the enthusiasm was not entirely faked. What was remarkable about the parade of commercials was that they had been made with so much more imagination, humor, photographic skill and musical talent than the programs they were designed to interrupt. The cinematography in a Prell shampoo blurb was visual poetry as it showed, with crystalline acuity, each gob of goo sinking into each coil of hair. There was the pathos of Willy Loman in a Metrecal pitch called the Lonely Man (commercials have titles these days), which showed a forlorn, overweight figure...
Warren and Frankfurter had their first notable collision in public one day in 1957, when Frankfurter dared to interrupt Warren and reword some convoluted questions that the Chief Justice was putting to a lawyer. Warren flushed, began to shout: "Let him answer my question! He is confused enough as it is." Frankfurter grew pale behind his eyeglasses and cut back, "Confused by Justice Frankfurter, I presume." In 1958, they were at it again: Warren lashed Frankfurter, charging that one of his dissents made the court out to be "savage." And just six weeks ago the Chief Justice publicly criticized Frankfurter...
...Russians do not interrupt this communion over the airways. Freed has not a sure answer. "No doubt they feel they have nothing to fear from religious propaganda," he says. "But beyond the materialist dimension there are still men's hearts and souls. No country can decree these out of existence...
...right kind of schmaltz: the kind that isn't self-conscious. Dean Gitter's direction was so rapidly paced that even the most outrageous puns seemed outrageously funny, and a laugh meter could praise them more accurately than a critic. By moving fast, Gitter managed to interrupt laughter with more laughter...