Word: motions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...background of the play was intended to be majestically awesome, the 17th-century playwright succeeded in putting the almost divine myth into the classical framework of an uncomplicated plot and simple, moving language. Morris' innovation lies in the exaggerated, expressionalistic gestures he has his actors execute. This grotesque motion serves as a counterpoint to Racine's majestic lines, and gives the actors an opportunity to do more than recite the well-worn alexandrines...
...keenest political eye. As the opening order of business. Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Baines Johnson moved consideration of a senatorial first step into space, to wit, his own resolution, establishing a Senate special committee on Astronautical and Space Exploration. Under Lyndon Johnson's sure hand the motion carried 78-1; Louisiana's Allen J. Ellender, who opposes all new committees on principle, saw no reason to make an exception for outer space...
...firing time approached, the bucket, driven by a small electric motor, began to rotate. This motion had the same purpose as the spin of a rifle bullet: to "spin-stabilize" the upper stages of the rocket. It would also check any tendency to veer off course if any of the small rockets in the bucket should ignite later than the others, or burn erratically...
Married. Joanne Woodward, 27, Hollywood blonde voted (by the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures) 1957's best actress (for her performance in The Three Faces of Eve); and Paul Newman, 33, Methodical cinemactor; she for the first time, he for the second; in Las Vegas...
...constructed with the delicacy of a motet. But it was essentially a tour de force, and Wilder's publishers were surprised at its runaway success. Bridge won the Pulitzer Prize, sold more than 2.000,000 copies, was translated into some two dozen languages and two bad motion pictures. As produced for CBS by David (Prince and the Pauper) Susskind, the Bridge was cliffs-above-average TV, but it still creaked of banality, of too many artificial characters acting intensely about too little. And it completely missed Wilder's subtle mockery of Calvinist theology and his "animal repudiation...