Word: pallid
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...hero (Paul Newman) is a raucous young crown prince of the cue who challenges the king (Jackie Gleason) to do battle for his throne. For 36 hours without intermission, they have at each other: now hacking fiercely at the glistening balls, now waving their cues exquisitely, like pallid wands, as the balls disappear, and always drinking, drinking, drinking as they play. Hour by hour, rack by rack, the young challenger draws steadily ahead, grows steadily more arrogant. After 25 hours, playing for $1,000 a game, he is $18,000 in the green. "It's my table!" he crows...
...lifelong suspicion of Soviet Jewry, and he launched a massive purge that erased nearly every trace of Jewish culture. Three Yiddish journals were banned; a Yiddish publishing house was closed; four Yiddish theaters went by the boards; 450 Yiddish writers, painters, actors and musicians were slaughtered. Only a pallid, two-page newspaper published twice a week in remote Birobidzhan on the Manchurian border kept the dim flame from guttering out. Last week that flame got its first fuel in 13 years as 25,000 copies of a new bimonthly Yiddish literary magazine, Sovietish Heimland (Soviet Homeland), came off the presses...
Despite the rain trickling down from a train trestle overhead, some 200 people last week gathered around a sound truck on a Bronx street to hear New York City's Democratic Mayor Robert Wagner plead for reelection. Smiling painfully, Wagner shook a few hands, then launched into a pallid denunciation of New York's Democratic machine bosses. The audience response, at best, was mixed. An enthusiastic urchin yelled: "Yay for Wag'ner baby!" A tenement dweller shouted down from his window: "Get outa here, yah bum!" In the crowd, a heckler chanted a bitter litany: "New York...
...must leave emotivism and its more pallid linguistic legatees behind," Blanshard said. A rational defense of a way of life lies in showing that it produces more good than the alternative. Yet, reason without enjoyment is valueless...
...Fish, Little Fish. Despite a good many faults, this story of a minor editor who is the life force for a group of skimpy has-beens and pallid never-weres is well worth seeing...