Word: shorter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hell is the essence of Shaw's highly debatable beliefs, it is also the epitome of his constantly dazzling methods. Technically no more than an extended dialogue, pyrotechnically it constitutes a splendid show. There are drawbacks: like almost everything of Shaw's, the Hell Scene could be shorter. But the characters score their points like polished duelists, flash their rhetoric like master showmen, make ideas hiss and coil and spring like creatures of melodrama. There are drawbacks to the performers, too: Charles Boyer's decided French accent and Charles Laughton's occasional tendency...
...Elizabeth Taylor, is not the boss' daughter, but the next thing to it. She is rich, beautiful, clever--and above all, she represents the security and luxury that the young man yearns for. The triangle has been set up, and it seems that Shelley Winters' side is a lot shorter than the other...
...their discontent and to escape their confusion in movies, radio, TV, books and so forth. The modern housewife is content to buy an electric mixer to mix her box cake and to open some cans, in preference to creating an appetizing meal. Her husband argues with his boss for shorter working hours and more pay, and expects the Government or anyone other than himself to make his life secure and comfortable . . . MARY ANNE HAYES Ann Arbor, Mich...
...Real Find. When Maureen was much shorter and only ten, back in San Diego, her widowed mother, a church organist, moved into a modest home only half a block from the courts run by Tennis Pro Wilbur Folsom. Graduating from fence-peeking, Maureen began retrieving balls in exchange for lessons. Folsom converted her from a lefthander, taught her a strategy of baseline defense...
...most cases the illness recurs every seven days, or in multiples of seven. Some patients' cycles get longer or shorter over the years, and some never fit the weekly pattern...