Word: posed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Explaining his move, Cherington emphasized what he called the great threat the increasingly influential Republican reactionaries pose to our "quasi-democratic" society...
Oldtime Comedian Buster Keaton gave photographers a chance to catch him in a traditionally morose pose before leaving on the United States for a European business trip. Two pieces of business: the London premiere of Charlie Chaplin's Limelight (see above), in which Keaton appears; a three-week stint with a Paris circus...
CONFRONTED with such snippets from his extensive vituperative record, Beecham would characteristically tend to wave them away with a modest disclaimer. "I was a perfect child," he confides to one biographer, "never spoke, never cried!" But in this pose-for Beecham can assume a pose quite naturally-he would no doubt choose to forget that his student days at Oxford came to a sudden end after 18 months and that the warden of Wadham College is then reported to have said, "Mr. Beecham! Your untimely departure has perhaps spared us the necessity of asking...
...week's end, Winchell quoted one of O'Brian's columns to pose a question to his readers: "One disk jockey so far hasn't discussed the fact that he wrote for the Daily Worker under a nom de Commie." Winchell had no intention of giving away a hot scoop like that by mentioning a name. The description fit nothing known about Gray, but if readers wanted to think Winchell and O'Brian were talking about Gray, it was apparently all right with them...
...loud, sustained wolf whistle has risen from the nation's barbershops and garages because of Marilyn's now historic calendar pose, in which she lies nude on a strip of crumpled red velvet. Uneasy studio executives begged her last January to deny the story. But Marilyn believes in doing what comes naturally. She admitted she posed for the picture back in 1949 to pay her overdue rent. Soon she was wading in more fan letters than ever. Asked if she really had nothing on in the photograph, Marilyn, her blue eyes wide, purred: "I had'the radio...