Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this place is there, Mrs. Hudd?). Pinter creates his multi-levelled allegory by carefully planning tone and symbol; for example, the impression of utter darkness underlies a banal quarrel about whether there were indeed stars in the sky. Obviously such a play de-instance, their laughter must be nervous as well as amused...
...actor's performances also flickered unevenly. Pamela King played Rose, the highly nervous woman who hides from her past and herself in a cold but otherwise fairly comfortable room. Her jerky gestures--especially her habit of pulling her sweater around her defensively--were convincing. But her rheumatism and cracking voice appeared and disappeared with a rapidity which would astound modern science. Generally amusing as the pathetic landlord Mr. Kidd, Elliot Cohen occasionally descended to unnecessary bathos...
...worst thing is when your stomach gets so hard that you can't even push it in with your hand," added her roommate. Everyone sitting around the lunch table laughed hysterically. Compulsive eating is practically never discussed, but when it does come up it is accompanied by great nervous gaiety...
...playing the role of an Episcopal priest who has been thrown out of his church for moral turpitude. Taylor, who has no part in the film, is playing it safe. Although she is still married to Eddie Fisher, she is already well along into the waiting-up-nervously phase with Burton. If she gets too nervous, she can always consult one of Burton's friendly agents, Michael Wilding, who in his acting days was her second husband...
Only the most nervous will object to the U.S.'s trimming the fat off its European forces and withdrawing men who can be replaced by technology. But the argument will continue whether it would be safe also to withdraw many combat troops-perhaps even most, as Ike is suggesting...