Word: rainswept
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...murky verse (Minna and Myself) and erotic novels (Replenishing Jessica) dwindled away, and he sank gradually into the bleary stupor of the alcoholic. He flapped disconsolately around the Village resting up periodically in the Bellevue alcoholic ward, sleeping in gutters, hallways and subways (TIME, Feb. 18, 1952). On a rainswept night three years ago, he met his third wife, a writer of sorts, in the middle of Washington Square. Ruth Fagan had a simple explanation for the meeting: "He had an umbrella and I didn...
...fourth match, Hoad faced Trabert on a soggy, rainswept court. "It was," said former Australian Champion Jack Crawford afterward, "the greatest tennis I have ever seen anywhere in the world." It was a battle of slam-bang serves, whistling forehands and slashing backhands by. the two hardest hitters in amateur tennis today. And when it was over, young Hoad had squared matters at two-all after a three-hour battle...
...this point that the frustrated Gradėre, living with the others in a dismal, rainswept chateau in southwestern France, adds murder to his long catalogue of sins. As the rain pours down, he intercepts the blackmailing Aline, now plotting with Symphorien to drive him from the chateau, and "without haste or passion, [performs] that act of squeezing her throat of which he had so often dreamed...
...soap opera. But George (A Place in the Sun) Stevens' direction is clean and uncluttered. Stevens has a camera magic that evokes a world of romantic illusion: the frustrated lovers caught up in a slow mire of overlapping dissolves, of magnificent closeups, of telephones ringing unanswered, of rainswept city streets...
...this odd digression, and Meeker's eventual cure is accomplished with Hollywood mirrors: in a tropical downpour, he saves his nephew's life, clears up his war neurosis in a brisk man-to-man chat with Whitmore, and, arm-in-arm with Jean, walks happily into the rainswept night...