Word: seenes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...temper as he surveyed the crowd, shook hands with the incoming Japanese ambassador. I stood only three feet from him, clicking away, looking for a flicker of a beady eye or something revealing, finding him really rather gold-toothed, charming, but thinking, "I'll bet he's seen some things." With all the cameras present I don't know why he singled me out, but all at once, without particularly looking at me, he leaned toward his young interpreter and said something. Grinning, the young man turned to me and spoke: "He says...
Making it tough for the panelists is the job of Producer Gil Fates, a sort of inverted Diogenes, who must first find "people everyone has heard of but no body has seen," but whose even harder search is for people adept at lying. Fates keeps enormous files of newspaper clips about odd characters, and complete cards on everyone who has ever entered his office...
...With a lower credit rating, Fannie May pays an average 3.96% interest for the money it borrows v. an average 2.78% for the Treasury itself. The ceiling also costs the U.S. money in departments that have nothing to do with the Treasury. Said one Washington economist: "I've seen the Navy cut back a program because it was afraid to spend money during a pinch, fire trained workers, then hire new workers later on and train them all over again when the pinch was over...
...battle. Lieut. Siegel at one point sees service on a heavy cruiser-but it's only she-duty. He is assigned to look after a lady correspondent (Eva Gabor), who is all too easily persuaded to part with her panties, which are next seen fluttering from the halyards as the ship goes into battle. "Ggrrulfskrggrowlk!" roars the admiral, but a seaman standing by reminds him, with a jaw squared in patriotism, "Sir, that's what we're fighting...
...Ernie Kovacs is the villain-the unit's second-in-command, who is bound and determined, as soon as he is mustered out, to run for the U.S. Senate. In his first movie role, Comic Kovacs is approximately terrific, the funniest new funnyface that has been seen on the screen in years. His sneeringly ingratiating personality has all the morbid fascination of a mentholated cigar...