Word: rolled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...loud protestations that something must be done at once to "relieve tensions" in General Europe; 2) the conviction that the prime source of these tensions lies in the present divided condition of Germany. Victims of Rapacki fever assume that there is little hope either for the U.S. to "roll back" Soviet forces from Eastern Europe or for the Russians to drive U.S. forces out of Western Europe. So they proclaim the need of an in-between solution-some kind of disengagement of Soviet and U.S. power. Among the most discussed disengagement proposals...
Said he last week: "We will roll up our sleeves and do a damned good job." The peso promptly firmed to 9.2 to the dollar. One of the Nationals elected to Uruguay's nine-man ruling National Council of Government, Nardone will get his chance to serve as its chairman, which is equivalent to being President. But doughty old Luis Alberto de Herrera, after spending all his life trying to win the government for the Nationals, will not preside over the government. As one of the three minority members of the current council ruling Uruguay in place...
With Jason Robards Jr. impressive as a collapsing standard bearer for his era and vocation, and with George Grizzard excellent as the younger writer, the main narrative has many moments, such as Halliday's proud roll call of Jazz Age names, that are vibrantly nostalgic, as it has others, such as Halliday's white-knuckled attempt to summarize a scenario that has never been written, that are tensely moving. Elsewhere, at times, the main story is wordy and under-dramatized. Despite Rosemary Harris' period appeal as the wife, the flashbacks seem inadequate, do more to catch...
...order to find out, Dillon first seduces and then gets engaged to the Elliot daughter, Josie, a member of the English equivalent of our local rock-'n'-roll-hair-curlers-and-chewing-gum set, who is neither warm, generous, nor particularly honest-to-goodness...
...with every temple, tower and palm frond rendered in tedious detail. And Paris Opera Conductor Georges Sebastian throttled the tempo to a crawl, once even goaded Tenor Bjoerling into striking out for several bars at a brisk clip all his own. The costumes matched the sets: an indeterminate sausage-roll garment for ample Soprano Rysanek, an orange-colored Raggedy Ann wig for Soprano Simionato. a short man's nightgown for the Pharaoh. The company's acting was at best competent, at worst ludicrous, especially Soprano Rysanek's lurching, bosom-clutching assault on the role...