Word: round
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have been used and used again as springboards for psychological thrillers. In fact, the theme has become so familiar that a relatively new visual idiom has been worn down into a bag of movie cliches (the close-up of the vague eye, the trick shot of all outdoors whirling round & round, the heart beating an audible tom-tom, the psychiatrist with his smooth sofa-side manner...
Last week, Louisville, swelling with local pride, heard its second premiere. While a packed audience in Columbia Auditorium clapped a hearty welcome, Virgil Thomson strode to the podium, ducked his round, balding head, and stared briefly ahead with his pale blue eyes. Then, brisk and businesslike, he drove Louisville's 50-piece Philharmonic through his Wheat Field at Noon, a series of well-plowed variations on two twelve-tone themes. When the ride was over, Louisville gave him an ovation. As a bonus, Composer Thomson led the orchestra in another little thing he had written, Bugles and Birds...
...Appleton layer reflects certain radio waves around the earth. Sir Edward's experiments proved the possibility of round-the-world broadcasting...
...spectacle in London's Harringay Arena made one loyal boxing fan shudder and say: "From now on, wrestling will be my hobby." In the third round, New Jersey's Lee Savold had popped glass-chinned Bruce Woodcock on his glass chin. Down went Brucie. In the fourth round, Savold popped him again with a low body blow. Woodcock, collapsing like a damp dishrag, lay moaning & groaning on the floor. Some of the sportwriters were reminded of a countryman of his, "Fainting Phil" Scott, who had made an art of collapsing, back in the late...
...coal mines got his big chance in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. Joe Baksi had shed a lot of blubber (from 257 Ibs. down to 210½), but he was still 32½ pounds heavier than his Negro opponent, Ezzard Charles of Cincinnati. For most of the ten rounds, Ezzard buzzed around Baksi like a bumblebee around a bull. He kept stinging Baksi with lefts & rights that didn't seem to hurt much-though he opened a bad cut above his left eye. At 2:33 of the eleventh round, his face a bloody mask, Baksi muttered...