Word: short
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sister, who turns out to be a peeping tomboy. Some nights, just to get a little privacy, the honeymooners sneak out and make love in the side yard. In this human hutch-with its clutter of furniture, racket of children and queues for the toilet-tempers are often short. Before long, hard words pass, and Natale, in a rage, packs up and moves...
...elevation and intensity, The Roof falls short of the best neorealistic films, but in technical skill and in the subtlety with which it makes its points it ranks among the finest. Director De Sica humanizes the harsh material of the story with his easy gaiety and gentle humor, masterfully plays the Svengali to his pickup cast of raw amateurs-whom he inspires not to act but to live out their feelings with an artless art. Essentially, Neorealists De Sica and Zavattini have not changed their cinematic method, but they seem to have revised their social and moral philosophy. In their...
Toronto scored three points in the opening minutes on a short penalty kick, but the Crimson dominated play for the rest of the game. The home team tied it up later when Graham Russell scored on a 25-yard angle kick...
Advance gifts and miscellaneous donations, originally expected to provide most of the Program money, are short of the proposed goals. Only 71.9 percent of the $50 million quota has been supplied by advance gifts. Miscellaneous contributions, with a goal of $20.5 million, have reached only 65.2 per cent of the total...
...later, the Crimson crushed a weak Princeton team, 99 to 41, in the Stadium. Gordon turned in one of his best competitive efforts, a 48.3 440, but Tiger sophomore Dick Edmunds won by a step, establishing a new meet record. Benjamin's bid for a University mile record fell short, as he was beaten by teammate Jed Fitzgerald in 4:16.2. John Bronstein won the discus with an excellent 158 ft., 33/4 in. toss, and John deKiewiet took the high jump for the second straight week...