Word: rowse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Circles of Hell. The camera first discovers Virginia Cunningham sitting on a bench in the sun. A disembodied voice asks her where she is. She does not know. The camera, following her inside a hulking grey building, discovers (as if through her bewildered eyes) the locked doors, the prison bars...
Plievier's finest writing is in description of single horror scenes--the mobs of wounded men on the Gumrak landing strip, who storm each Junkers transport as it lands in the desperate hope of being flown to safety; the freezing corridors of a field hospital, where the wounded are left...
Harry Truman, who sat on the Army side last year, was indeed on Navy's side -about half a dozen rows back. Soon the Navy men in front of him were jumping to their feet, and the President had to jump up to see too. It was that kind...
Several mirrors are placed beside the tank so rowers can watch themselves, while coaches Tom Bolles, Harvey Love, and Bert Haines shout advice from the side ramps. Right now the sessions are informal. Each candidates reports at his leisure and rows for 15 minutes with seven other men.
She has quarreled with almost every producer, director and playwright who has crossed her path in recent years. Oddly, the bitterest feuds have involved her best plays. She does not speak to The Little Foxes' Producer-Director Herman Shumlin and Playwright Lillian Hellman (both leftists whose rows with Tallulah...