Word: neat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...movie revolves around five thieves who plan and execute a neat robbery, using a little old lady's house as a temporary hideout. Their kindly landlady eventually discovers what the quintet actually is, but not one of the grim crooks summons enough nerve to eliminate this liability in old lace. Unable to kill her, the frantic thieves fall out. Luckily a railroad bridge is handy; bodies are dumped into passing freight trains with delightful regularity to the solemn accompaniment of pompous funeral marches...
...Avenue one evening last week, 500 angry people acted out a savage syllogism: 1) Negroes are not welcome on Robson Avenue, 2) the new family is Negro, 3) the new family must get out. To emphasize the harsh conclusion, bigot hands hurled stones through two front windows of the neat brick house. Inside, John Rouse and his family, who had moved in the day before, were shocked and bewildered...
Legend Persists. Even more wittily, the novelist himself has supported the publisher's proud claim that this new edition carries a "new foreword by the author" in a neat 76 words. Thus at 81, Winston Churchill shows himself more garrulous by 29 words than in the original note in which the young officer of the IVth (Queen's Own) Hussars was moved to submit the book "with considerable trepidation to the judgement or clemency of the public.'' The aged Knight of the Garter adds for the current edition: "The intervening fifty-five years have somewhat dulled...
...spite of its length and the slickness that sometimes makes it too neat, The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit is a good movie. It deals with Madison Avenue squarely and in its own terms; so that what the movie "says" has meaning for its subject. Once Gregory Peck is first shown on his commuter's train, the action devolops consistently out of itself, and the pleas for some kind of honesty or simplicity have a meaning for the people from whom they come...
When Juliet is on camera, the ballet goes lyrical, and there is no need for the narrator. By the swiftness of her flashing toes, as she and Romeo first face each other, she establishes a mood of girlish ecstasy; by the neat way she lifts one calf across the other while Romeo holds her aloft, she expresses womanly satisfaction in her conquest; at the marriage, the very line of her pouter-pigeon torso, stretching straight back to her pointed toes as she is held up, delivers an emotional wallop. But the high point of Ballerina Ulanova's performance...