Word: limped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fallen Angels (by Noel Coward) is 30 years old, and was far from robust when young. Fortunately, it has been given no orthodox revival: Noel Coward's limp play has been turned into Nancy Walker's gorgeous plaything. Actress Walker (On the Town, Phoenix '55) has become one of the theater's most wildly and continuously funny clowns, capable of rowdy hauteurs and of a stare that could blight fruit. To Coward's drawingroom yarn of two bored young wives who jointly, jealously, at length drunkenly await the arrival of a Frenchman they both sinned...
...thing, the weather has been bad, i.e., good.* There was an acute snow shortage. Days of bright sunshine softened the ski runs. Slush filled Cortina's streets. Flags of competing nations hung limp in the warm air. As the bobsled run slowly spoiled in the heat, national arguments developed over who should get a chance to practice. Italian Alpine troops were standing by to cart snow from colder slopes...
According to current Hollywood theory Cinemascope musicals should be as long as they are wide. Sam Goldwyn has therefore made the Broadway show of Guys and Dolls into a bulky picture running well over two and a half hours. Still, the viewer will leave the theatre limp and happy--but probably not as happy as when he saw the original musical...
...like a veteran-although his job was doubly complicated because every time he looked, his backfield mates were playing a different position. Far too spry for a man with a gimpy leg. Halfback Murtland suited up and played right and left half with equal agility; Kyasky came in to limp through a touchdown drive; Fullback Pat Uebel started at left half, switched to right half and took his turn at the fullback slot besides. No matter who was playing where, Southpaw Holleder faked or ran, handed off or passed with the same precision. His passes were still a little...
...bites his wrist. He rips her dress off. Her eyes dilate. She clutches her breasts protectively. He kisses her brutally. She goes limp. Then slowly her arms, as if moved by a will of their own, go gliding around him, and her fingers dig greedily into his flesh. "Just once." she sighs a little later. "Just once...