Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Penrod & Sammy. Morse's own swift rise on Broadway has not always been so endearing. He was so irritatingly erratic during the road trials of his first play. 1953's The Matchmaker, that the rest of the nervous cast was ready to sign a petition to have him dropped; but he eventually scored a personal triumph, peeping out from under a table shouting, "We're all terribly innocent," and he was the only member of the Broadway cast who was signed to appear in the film version. During the pre-Broadway run of his next play...
...even when there is a fist fight going on. Director Valerio Zerlini's method for showing great emotion is to have his principals stare hard at each other for minutes on end, or to focus the camera on one actor, who holds a constant expression, fighting off blinks and nervous tics, until the audience is driven to the far reaches of sanity and/or alertness. And, of course, Miss Cardinale's consummate lack of skill in a part that demands subtle shadings of emotion cripples the movie still further. I found myself reduced to rooting for her attackers, in hopes...
...Kerr's lavish (13 bathrooms) ranch house. Next morning the President flew back to Washington, where he entertained Harry and Bess Truman overnight at the White House. Then he was off again, to New York and New Jersey. At La Guardia Airport, Mayor Robert Wagner, growing increasingly nervous about this week's election, was waiting on the apron to greet him. The President's endorsement was in a mimeographed handout, which he did not read: "I want to take this opportunity to state with the utmost conviction my wholehearted support for the re-election of Mayor Robert...
...University of Texas, every female foot seems to be in black loafers. When it rains, out come clean white sneakers. At Northwestern, the uniform is dirty white sneakers and full skirts above the knee; at Reed, some girls go barefoot. Skirts are so short at U.C.L.A. that a nervous professor recently announced: "Move back or leave class until I blacken the lower half of my glasses...
Aerospace is a cerebral industry where Saturn stands for a product as well as a target; where "Aeronutronic" is not a nervous disorder but a new branch of the Ford Motor Co.; where one week's output from a major factory can be shipped in the tail end of a station wagon, and a cupful of sensitive components, such as microwave diodes, is worth $150,000. It makes men talk in superlatives. Says E. V. Huggins, executive committee chairman of Westinghouse Electric Corp.: "The aerospace business is the most mind-stretching, imagination-producing, forward-looking activity a company...