Word: razors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...created such a scene that attendants had to remove him bodily. When his wife and her lawyer appeared next morning at the flat he had shared with Belinda, Prince Orsini tamely let himself be led home, but then-in a burst of anger-slashed his wrists with a razor blade...
Though there were sound male performers in the cast (Steve Hill, Hume Cronyn), the TV play belonged to the women. As the perichole (half-breed bitch), Viveca Lindfors munched off the scenery with her "razor tongue" until the pox dulled her cutting edge and brought pathos to the role. Judith Anderson played the mad. fatuous marquesa in a style that would have fit nicely into a theater but came a little floridly into the living room. Yet both actresses gave the show its finest moment: a fateful mutual-humility act when the marquesa, in a weepy, alcoholic glow transferred...
Witness for the Prosecution (Arthur Hornblow; United Artists). "He's like a drowning man clutching at a razor blade." A famed British barrister (Charles Laughton) is referring to his feckless client (Tyrone Power). Indicted for the murder of a wealthy widow, the fellow faces a trial in which all the evidence-a will too timely altered in his favor, a maid who places him in the house on the night of the murder-is disastrously against him. His only hope is the testimony of his wife (Marlene Dietrich). But on the witness stand the wife declares that...
...peaks, the Administration estimated Federal income for fiscal 1959 (beginning next July) at $74.4 billion, with tax rates remaining unchanged. That would top 1958 income by $2 billion, and, as Ike promised beforehand, leave a budget surplus. But the black-ink estimate amounts to only $500 million, a mere razor's edge as sums in the federal budget go. And just to give the Administration some room to maneuver, the President asked Congress to lift the $275 billion statutory debt limit "temporarily" through fiscal...
Feel Sharp, Drive Sharp. In Paramus, N.J., despite his plea that there was no law against it, Theodore Hildebrandt Jr. was ticketed for careless driving after cops caught him driving with the wheel in one hand, a razor in the other, and blobs of lather on his face...