Word: paling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...small town lawyer who, by her own testimony, had provided her with "exquisite home-training and refinement." Poor Hardy was born the son of a mason. Soon after their marriage she was belittling her husband in public; Robert Louis Stevenson's wife remembered Hardy as "a pale, gentle, frightened little man that one felt an instinctive tenderness for, with a wife-ugly is no word for it!" While Hardy suffered his fright in silence, Emma kept score of her numerous grievances against him in a notebook titled "What I Thought of My Husband"; Hardy himself discovered...
Even Shakespeare purists who pale at the idea of a 110 minutes cutting of the three-and-a-half hour play, will approve of Welles's condensation. His use of panning camera motion animates the long dialogue sections he retained from the play's late acts, particularly the soliloquies which on stage tend to be unbearably static. This vividness and motion more than compensate for the confused nature of the early scenes, in which Welles's attempt to speed through preliminaries makes a prior reading of the play advisable...
...Pale and still easily exhausted, Democratic Governor John Connally last week tried to tend to the business of Texas from a hospital bed in Dallas' Parkland Memorial Hospital. His recovery from the bullet that ripped through his chest, wrist and thigh has been rapid. His punctured lung has re-inflated and is healing beyond all original expectations. Each day he is up and about for a bit longer. Half of the stainless steel wires used to stitch together his torn thigh have been removed. Doctors predicted that the Governor would leave the hospital in a week or so, should...
...famous was 1959's Room at the Top, in which he affected a pudding-thick Yorkshire inflection. In Summer and Smoke he purred in decayed Southern tones, in Wild Side he was a drawl-in' no-good Texas bum, and in Butterfield 8 he was a pale Yalie. This sort of variety is what he likes. "I refuse," he says with a flip of the wrist, "to be myself in films. It's been a long time since I've used my normal voice...
...from positions previously prepared." Groaned one Conservative: "God, it's like a Tory election poster!" Twice Sir Alec even made the tactical gaffe of referring to Wilson as "possible later Prime Minister." The Tory benches remained deathly silent while Labor's triumphant roar surged around the slight, pale Prime Minister...