Word: reliefer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sometimes difficult for a conductor to accept the idea that outstanding orchestra musicians feel they could be more constructive teaching and performing in the midst of a renowned school instead of being musically dictated to by the gentleman standing on the podium. A vacation it is not, but a relief...
...husband fled south to Saigon in 1954, and she soon became known in the refugee-swollen quarter of Gia Dinh as a woman who got things done. She organized a neighborhood school, founded a Catholic Mothers' Association, arranged housing and relief allotments for widows...
...came to the U.S. when he was three, attended Trinity College in Connecticut, and collected a $75,000 bonus for signing with the Chicago Cubs. So far, so good. But he has since bounced around nine teams, and until this season, when he compiled a 6-0 record in relief for the Orioles, his most noteworthy achievement was getting his name in the record book-for hitting four batters in one game. "I also was the losing pitcher when Early Wynn won his 300th game," says Moe, "and I was the guy pitching when Stan Musial got his 3,000th...
...more than moo in this moovie. There is, for example, a galloping good story that describes with cheerful inaccuracy how in 1864 a troop of Confederate cavalry rustled about 2,500 steers from the Union forces and then sent them thundering through Grant's lines to the relief of Richmond. What's more, the story provides Director Edward Dmytryk with irresistible opportunities to plant a little poison ivy on the grave of Southern chivalry...
After juggling these philosophical nuggets, Director Frankenheimer almost saves the picture by the straightforward expedient of a human sacrifice. He plunges with almost palpable relief into the surreal terrors of organization headquarters and carefully builds toward the film's screaming-meemie climax, sparing nothing but an anesthetic. Seconds has moments, and that's too bad, in a way. But for its soft and flabby midsection, it might have been one of the trimmest shockers of the year...