Word: shadowings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...came up alongside Truman while the cameras clicked away. Almost unnoticed was the most important fact of Truman's arrival: his old speechwriter, Judge Sam Rosenman, now a top Harriman adviser, had sidled up to Truman's side, where he was to remain like an outsized shadow all week...
...Georgia's Rock Quarry Prison near Buford last week. Some of his details invited dispute. But beyond dispute was the fact that inmates of Rock Quarry had sunk so low on the scale of human hope that they had ducked out of the searing sun into the shadow of a rock pile, had smashed each other's legs in a despairing gesture of mass protest...
...SHADOW OF THE GUILLOTINE (1,077 pp.)-Rafael Sabatini-Houghton Mifilin...
This week the nation's bookshops are stocking a Sabatini bargain. In the Shadow of the Guillotine contains three novels with a French Revolution setting: Scaramouche, The Marquis of Carabas, The Lost King. Even people with literary pretensions can admire the expert workmanship. Others will simply enjoy the storytelling, the color, the sweep and energy that were Sabatini's trademarks. Picking up this neat, compact volume, many an old fan will be glad to see him back...
...with God, it generates a Gorkian power in chronicling the rise and fall and rise again of a grade-A juvenile delinquent from Manhattan's Lower East Side. It also gives a merited big chance to Actor Paul Newman, 31. who seemed doomed to walk forever in the shadow of Marlon Brando. Newman is still chock full of Brando mannerisms-the animal clumsiness,'mumbled speech and hunched shoulders-and he shambles through his scenes as precariously upright as a dancing bear. But there is strength in everything he does, and his occasional tenderness with wife Pier Angeli...