Word: nervous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only thing wrong with all this is that, thanks to a case of nervous scissors, there is somewhat too little of a good thing. The scenes rush by so fast that by the time the moviegoer realizes where he is, he usually isn't. Like as not, though, he is in another brisk and stylish scene, surrounded by intelligent people who are obviously enjoying themselves. Kay Kendall, for instance, makes a damozel as dainty as court broidery, though she has precious little to do (as Grace Kelly complained when she refused the part) but "clutch her jewel...
...straight to the Lowndes Square home of Marquess Abergavenny, a close friend of the royal family. That same evening the press learned that Princess Margaret was due in from Scotland next morning. A battery of reporters stood at Euston Station to note the Princess' tensely clenched hands and nervous glances as she stepped off the train. Something...
...famed 379-voice Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They had been on the choir's summer tour of Europe (TIME, Sept. 19) and were on their way home to Utah. Also aboard was Dale Brown, an employee of a Hawaiian pineapple company, with his mother. Because Mrs. Grace Brown was nervous about making her first flight, her son had flown all the way to Kansas in order to escort her to Honolulu...
...plain in combat scenes which could never have been napalmed off as the real thing without Audie. Credibility, burns in his mild face and gentle gestures as he moves through scenes of battle raptly, like a man reliving them with wonder and something of reverence. And just for a nervous instant, now and then, the moviegoer glimpses, in the figure of this childlike man, the soul-chilling ghost of all the menlike children of those violent years, who hovered among battles like avenging cherubs, and knew all about death before they knew very much about life...
...Nervous Type. In Chicago, fined $675 for 80-m.p.h. speeding, reckless driving and running through eleven red lights, Manuel Palide, 22, told Traffic Court Judge Alfonso Wells: "I must have been excited...