Word: limps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This is the week to go to the movies. The TV schedule is full of reruns and summer-limp musical variety programs. But the dedicated televiewer might try these shows...
...with crowds, of his knowledge and understanding of the Soviet Union and-fundamentally-of his knowledge and understanding of his own nation. To the thousands of Russians and Poles who saw him, Nixon was the personification of a kind of disciplined vigor that belied tales of the decadent and limp-wristed West...
...people. "I'm a good straight man," he says. "They need someone to bounce against." Gossipist Lyons never bounces back, never breaks a confidence, and except for a few personal feuds, notably with Walter Winchell and Bennett Cerf, never spits venom in his column. The gentle and often limp anecdotes of his syndicated "The Lyons Den" (106 newspapers) picture the great as playing a perpetual game of conversational pattyball, in which the backhand blast is taboo, and the score is always love-love. "So many people use print to tyrannize," says Drama Critic John Mason Brown. "Lyons just wants...
...would exhibit a urinal as sculpture, for example, to get across the idea that a statue is no better and no worse than a urinal. Thus degraded, Dada soon grew the snaky locks of surrealism. Next year's fair-haired boy may well have his pockets full of limp watches, and may also be hailed as a pioneer...
...long by 20 minutes or so, LIMP goes limp now and then. But even at their most ponderously pornographic, the love scenes are spiced with French wit and spaced with hilarious little episodes. B.B. is not really up to her role, which demands more than the sort of lolitapalooza she invariably plays, but everybody else is excellent. Franco Interlenghi is fierce and touching as the heroine's No. 2 lover. Actress Feuillère, as the wife, subtly interprets a shrewd Frenchwoman who understands what is happening, but cannot make it hurt any less. And Actor Gabin is stonily...