Word: motioning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Union Committee narrowly voted into existence a sub-committee to steer the amendment process, but finally killed a motion requiring this steering committee to poll class opinion...
...inflated pontoons tangled in elephant grass and topped by the huge backbone of a fish. He tapped, squeezed, rubbed, twanged, and out of the contraptions came an amazing series of sounds-some of them hootingly sepulchral, some barkingly savage, some bewitching in the echoing tintinnabulations they set in motion. "Here you see the future of music," said Baschet proudly...
...first vote, against a Republican leadership motion to send the bill back to conference for revision, was 238 (211 Democrats, 27 Republicans) to 181 (167 Republicans, 14 Democrats). At midpoint in the roll call the outcome was clear; Louisiana Democrat Allen Ellender. chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, strode onto the floor to thump the back of his House opposite number, North Carolina's Harold Cooley. Actual passage of the bill, 237-181, was anticlimactic. Within six hours the Senate rolled it through. 50 (35 Democrats. 15 Republicans) to 35 (31 Republicans, four Democrats), and sent...
...first motion picture, the French comic brings all his talents into play as the bicycle-borne letter carrier of a small village. The picture is a one-man show, made up of a series of episodes held together by little more than its comedian's abilities. He uses almost no dialogue for his effects, but in such scenes as an epic battle with tottering flag pole, and a drunken wrestling match between the postman and his bicycle, no words are necessary...
...especially that of the Grand Mikado (Victor Altshul). He has an impressive voice, and combines a regal loftiness with the eagerness of a village fool. The tendency toward madness is also reflected in the executioner (Ned Marcus), who leaps and leers his way across the stage. Marcus' continual body motion and fast pace tend to be a bit too intense, but he is quite funny, and could be even funnier if he would slow down enough to let all the lines come across. His best moments are with the old maid, played by Diana Frothingham, who uses her convincingly expressive...