Word: muscularity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...View from the Bridge. Adapted from Arthur Miller's play, the film postures ineffectually as Greek tragedy in cold-water Flatbush, but as a modern drama of moral incest, it has considerable merit, thanks largely to Raf Vallone's muscular performance as the troubled stevedore...
...infants is born with some defect, many of which, untreated, may be handicapping or fatal, said O'Connor. And the scientists are closing in on other disorders suspected of being transmitted by genes, the giant molecules of heredity: diabetes, gout, some forms of mongolism, cretinism, cystic fibrosis, muscular dystrophy, the inability to make protective antibodies against bacteria, and many other disorders of the blood, besides obvious physical defects...
...book was a mixture of love and pity and humor: pity and humor for everyone, especially bums and prostitutes, and love for life, no matter how preposterous. If it was writing that perhaps lacked bite, at least it did not gnash its teeth; if the prose was not exactly muscular, it had plenty of heart, and the heart, as everyone knows, is an involuntary muscle which cannot (and need not) be flexed...
...Trade and Commerce Minister George Hees, who likes to wear gold cufflinks initialed G.O.Y.B.S.A.S. (meaning "Get Off Your Back Side And Sell"), sent his tradesmen to cultivate markets wherever they could find them. Canadian sales to Eastern Europe are up 90%, to Latin America 36%, to Asia a muscular 61% (to $312 million). Biggest Asian customer is famine-struck Red China, which has engaged to buy $425.6 million worth of Canadian grain over the next 2½ years. Canada's qualms in the matter are more economic than ideological, turning on the Communists' ability...
SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY MORNING. For connoisseurs of the actor's art: this muscular adaptation of Alan Sillitoe's half-angry, half-funny novel of working-class life in England features Albert Finney, 24, the most talented young actor in the English-speaking world, as a sly young dog who growls at his fate and howls...