Word: roughly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ladder and wise men and shepherds stand by and wonder as the Christ Child-an 18-month-old- stands up and waves to the audience from a clothesbasket. The play's "dialogue" was made up by a group of kindergartners after Director McCarey gave them the rough idea. McCarey claims "it was one of the most difficult sequences" he ever directed. But it was worth the trouble...
...Khan, pumpkin-shaped, 264-lb. spiritual ruler of some twelve million Ismaili Moslems, was the cause of a commotion in diamonds. From London came reports that great quantities of rough-cuts, gifts from his Moslems, were piling up against his forthcoming Diamond Jubilee, when the Khan will be weighed in diamonds. He will keep the stones, and give charity their money equivalent (some...
...four powers entered a new and more important occupation phase, the Russian rough-stuff was about finished. Britain, France and the U.S. were just about beginning theirs, with large-scale industrial destruction and removals...
Prokofiev's music, like everybody else's in Soviet Russia, has to be okayed first by his fellow composers in a private "sitting," before it can be played in public. The sittings were pretty rough during the 1936-37 purge of "formalism" in music - which meant an end to fancy musical tricks that the masses could not understand. Shosta kovich was a prime target, and Prokofiev caught a few glancing blows. Now, considering that at one sitting rival composers can make or break a year's work by one of their colleagues, the sessions are fairly harmonious...
...DEAD LIE STILL - William L.Stuart -Farrar & Rinehart ($2). Sam Talbot managed to be both a $30,000-a-year artist and a hard-drinking, indestructible private detective: "A big rough-look ing guy with dark hair. Good clothes...