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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Moscow, the U.S. questioned whether Russia wanted a summit meeting "to take meaningful decisions" or "merely to stage a spectacle." Recalling that wording, a newsman asked Dulles if he thought that acceptance of Russia's terms would make a summit meeting a "spectacle." Replied Dulles: "It would mean that on the way to the summit we would have lost our shirt. Perhaps that would result in a 'spectacle...
...mean in America, don't you, sir?" answered the Demon for the Democracies, who was showing him around. "It's all pretty old stuff over in Europe...
...course I mean America," snapped Satan, tapping his hoof impatiently. "We've put a lot of work into the churches, and I'm not at all sure it's paying off the way it should. Who's Mr. Protestant these days...
...teacher remarked to a colleague: "Somebody told me at one time you were pumping gas and one of your students came in and asked for a tankful. How did you feel about it?" The reply: "Well, that doesn't happen very often, but it does bother you. I mean, they want you to wash the windowshield and check the oil-things like that. They give you the full treatment-checking the tires...
...story. To begin with, the young man of the "broad, flat face [with] eyes the color of stagnant water" has been transformed by Hollywood into a dreamy-looking cinemactor named Paul Newman-but Newman's performance as Ben Quick, before the script blunts it, is as mean and keen as a cackle-edge scythe. And Eula Varner, she of the "kaleidoscopic convolution of mammalian ellipses," is divided into two slender young beauties named Lee Remick and Joanne Woodward-but Woodward plays her part with a fire and grace not often seen in a movie queen. And old Will Varner...