Word: poked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Live TV has that little element of human fallibility," Singer Dinah Shore once said. "If you make a mistake, you can use that old ham bone and capitalize on it." Last week Dinah almost got knocked off-camera by a playful poke in the ribs from Guest Star Jimmy Durante, but Dinah's ham bone was up to it; gasping with laughter, she bounced back to make it seem a small bonus in an hour of unpremeditated fun. Week to week, just such spontaneity fuses with a haunting vocal talent to make blonde (since 1944) Dinah Shore the nicest...
...critic, a case of "the bland leading the bland." TV's Pepsi-Cola girl, Polly Bergen, got mired down in embarrassingly labored exchanges with a shrill, scenery-chewing "panel" of other show folk, and only when she used her high but lilty voice did her seductive talents poke through. The Hit Parade was back (in stunning color for the 200,000 color-set owners), with a bevy of new performers led by young, moist-eyed Jill Corey, whose vocal renderings come with a lush, built-in sob. On the densely populated show called The Big Record, moonfaced Patti Page...
...passengers are people who, like the line itself, want to make a lot out of a little-Scandinavian-Americans off to visit relatives or settle down in the old country on small pensions, U.S. teachers, clergymen and students whose travel plans are big but funds small. They poke along in unpressurized DC-45 at 8,000 ft., doing 220 to 240 m.p.h. v. 350 m.p.h. for DC-7s. At times, the trips take five hours longer than on other lines. Yet Icelandic's seven-man crews take care to fly around the weather, have a 100% safety record...
Kerala is looking more like Yenan every day. In the countryside, Red-directed "peoples' action committees" assiduously poke their noses into everything from state transportation to the government's "fair price" food shops. When reports reached Kerala's capital of Trivandrum that some of the "action committees" were usurping the functions of the law courts, Communist Chief Minister E.M.S. Namboodiripad replied blandly: "A government is best that rules the least." The "peoples' committees," he told his followers, were the wave of the future...
...divides his output into four classes--pieces roses (rosy, pleasant plays), pieces noires (sombre, unpleasant plays), pieces brillantes (shining plays), andpieces grincantes (grating plays). Thieves' Carnival is a piece rose, a delightful comedy of wit and frolic. But even here, every once in a while little undertones of sadness poke through the surface...