Word: limps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...operas, designed chiefly for vocal acrobatics. The scene is Gaul of the Druids' day. Norma is a high priestess who has broken her vow of chastity and borne the Roman proconsul two children, only to find that he really loves a younger priestess. Much of the melody is limp as a drink of water and the harmonies have the simple severity of Stonehenge, but fastidious fans love...
...comedian continually. The typical American family of Anniversary Waltz represents an inconceivable collection of wits, from the husband to the handyman. The play races along through jokes and slapstick with no member of the cast willing o able to take a straight man part. It leaves the audience limp after able to take a straight man part. It leaves the audience limp after one act and pondering the question of which party, authors or cast, can keep up the pace...
Cockpit & Goggles. Slessor's convic tions hardened, as he did, in the school of experience. The son of a British major in the Indian army, he grew up with a cruel impediment: a "gammy leg" that kept him off the rugger field, gave him a lifelong limp. Nerve alone won his commission in the Royal Flying Corps, but once in the air, Slessor proved a topflight pilot. In the Sudan in 1916, he swooped down on a dervish cavalry outfit, routed it with Lewis gunfire and bombs, and "by this unexpected method of assault," wrote the official R.A.F. historian...
...common cold, movie gangsters are bigger than ever. With height, breadth of shoulder, circumference of bicept and cragginess of feature, the toughs are of heroic proportions. But two re-releases now in town make the whole crew, from Charles McBraw to Scott Brady, look like limp souffles...
...merely Lady Starcross' or was Playwright Morgan's own. But it was hard to care much, for even at its best, when its two stars were effectively defiant or hysterical, the play had only a stagy force. For the most part, it was loaded with exposition and limp from reminiscence; nor would the suspicion down that Starcross was no less a bore than he was a fake...