Word: lazier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...feed what he calls "my great want to conquer." The flops hurt deeply and worried him about his appeal to a mass audience. But they forced him into well-paid jobs in nightclubs, where live audiences kept his talents supple. Meanwhile, more successful comedians were falling into the lazier habit of peering at scripts through spectacles...
...days of last Spring when I was making time on the Charles River's banks, they were over at Soldiers Field every afternoon listening to a new coach explain a new system. And as the days became lazier, they put on pads and helmets and put into practice a strange system of football. At times they wished that they had never come out. A half dozen quit. Yet in the end, they slowly became aware that they were learning to move the ball. Spring practice was over, and soon after, they were off to Summer jobs...
...Still lazier anglers can find an outlet for their sloth in "tip-up" or "tilt" fishing. The fisherman merely sets his rig over an ice-hole and retires to the security of a bazing fire on the shore...
Artistically, the film is no less extraordinary. It has its blurs and failures. Finely cut and paced as it is, the picture goes on so long, and under such darkness and chill, that the lazier-minded type of cinemagoers will probably get tired. Chaplin overexerts, and apparently overestimates, a writing talent which, though vigorous and unconventional, weighs light beside his acting gifts. As a result, a good deal of the verbal and philosophic straining seems inadequate, muddled and highly arguable -too highbrow for general audiences, and too naive for the highbrows...
Private Ives could remember other, lazier days. A onetime Eastern Illinois State Teachers College footballer, burly Burl Ives bummed around the U.S. with his guitar, collecting folk songs and singing them to folks. In Manhattan he met Songsleuth Sigmund Spaeth, who sent him to NBC. Ambling amiably up to a mike, he started off with Robin He Married a Wife from the West. But NBC listeners that warm June day in 1940 heard no more than the opening line. "Special bulletin," the announcer broke in, "France has capitulated...