Word: muscularly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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High Noon combines its points about good citizenship with some excellent picturemaking. Carl (Champion) Foreman's screenplay is lean and muscular, and as noteworthy for its silences as for its sounds. And Fred (The Men) Zinnemann's direction wrings the last ounce of suspense from the scenario with a sure sense of timing and sharp, clean cutting. The picture builds from 10:40 a.m. to its high noon climax in a crescendo of ticking clocks, shots of the railroad tracks stretching long and level into the distant hills and of the hushed, deserted streets of Hadleyville. Throughout...
...baseball scout, the ideal pitcher is a rangy, muscular six-footer who can rear back and burn the ball across the plate all afternoon. Such a man was Lefty ("Old Mose") Grove (6 ft. 1½in., 170 Ibs.), the pitcher who in 1931 won 31 games (four losses) for the Philadelphia Athletics. When the Athletics' Scout Ira Thomas, still in search of a new-day Grove, took a look at stocky (5 ft. 7 in., 143 Ibs.) Bobby Shantz, he echoed other scouting reports on the little lefthander: "The general opinion is that Shantz is too small...
...striking exhibit for a 19-year-old. Paolo's muscular sketches showed a smooth, well-developed style and a precise eye for detail. His best were natural subjects he saw at the zoo or the family farm: a furry, tongue-flicking anteater, a nursing calf, a spiny crawfish. In others, he had let his imagination roam, turned out such things as a ferocious sparrow, as seen from the eye of its prey, a beetle, a fantastic, cross-eyed cat, a panorama called Ancient Hunt, showing naked horsemen chasing terrified animals. His sponsors reported that 85,000 people have stopped...
...Paris' Malakoff suburb, one small factory shines out like a beacon. Its neat brick walls are covered with vines; the windows are immaculately clean. Inside the red iron gate there is a courtyard filled with bronze statues. Plump Renoir and Maillol nudes stand side by side with muscular Bourdelle torsos, Rodin figures, and a host of lesserworks. On most of the statues, two names are inscribed. The first is the sculptor's; the second is that of the man who turned it into bronze, Eugene Rudier, the foundry's 74-year-old owner and the last...
...prestige are two things Batista understands and values. It has been said of him that he has limitless ambition, plenty of ability and no respect for his fellow men. With those who do not cross him, he can be pleasant and even jovial. At 51, he is a hairy, muscular man's man, with the swarthy brow and barrel chest of a smaller Max Schmeling. He revels in the authority he has won back...