Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...camera and angle, and he never slows down the pace. While it's hard to believe that a fire-extinguisher could ever put Mappin & Webb out of commission--as it does--most gangster films aren't wholly believable, anyway. For instance, when the stopped-up bell starts to ring almost inaudibly, why isn't the Arrondissement's gendarmerie roused by closed wire to action? Well, we don't know, or care...
...Bell Rings. The alarm bell did not ring until after Britain and France had already agreed to a cease-fire in Egypt, in the face of the expressed disapproval of other principal allies around the world and a 64-10-5 vote against them in U.N. Israel too had agreed to a ceasefire, but was waiting to exact a victor's satisfaction from Nasser...
...track and field team was in top form for the Olympics were dispelled in a final practice meet at Los Angeles. Burly Parry O'Brien (240 Ibs., 6 ft. 3 in.) sniffed an ammonia ampule to get a little relief from a head cold, whirled across the ring and tossed the 16-lb. ball 63 ft. 2 in. to better his own unofficial record. The mile relay team went the distance in 3:07.3, to break another world record. High Jumper Charlie Dumas broke his own unofficial world record with a 7 ft. f in. practice jump. Husky...
...incredibly beautiful woman with an unsymmetrical face. Most of the movie's fake German accents ring false but hers seems real. She has a wonderful aptitude for sizing people up, appraising who is good and who is bad, and doing something about it. She turns on the tears, proves a sound moral point, turns off the juice, and carries on. If Anatole Litvak, a great director of Swastikas and Spitfires, had concentrated on the good old theme of people--specifically the fascinating and irrelevant Hildegarde--he might have had a great movie on his hands...
...Boston Symphony add a dimension of rare virtuosity to four modern works in The Modern Age of Brass. Beethoven Piano Sonatas (Op. 109, 110) make the instrument sound iridescent and almost inhumanly-clear, which is as it should be, and Ernest Levy's performance has the ring of truth...