Word: shoulder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...home. In 1925, after his father had died, leaving him a small legacy, he headed for Paris, to drift casually through its salons and cafes. In 1940 he moved to Venice, where he became a familiar sight, plying the canals in his huge gondola, a parrot perched on his shoulder, the words "fleur de misere" (flower of misery) printed in red across the chest of his heavy navy-blue sweater. At his daily teas, intellectuals and artists hobnobbed with petty thieves and guttersnipes, whom he had met during his bohemian wanderings...
Ayrton's best work concerns "the greatest human tragedy, the failure to communicate." In Mirror Image, a young man stares at a silent girl whose unhappy face is reflected in a mirror over his shoulder...
Long before the transports arrive, the frogmen mine the concrete and steel traps with lung-bursting patience, blast them out of the path of the assault troops. Donning rubber suits and shoulder-fitted oxygen tanks, they give the picture its most gripping sequence by slipping through the steel net of a Japanese harbor to mine its submarine pens. For good measure, the movie tosses in a tense situation aboard the frogmen's destroyer (commanded by Gary Merrill), when Widmark and Andrews undertake the ticklish job of disarming an unexploded Japanese torpedo that has pierced the ship's hull...
Books & Flaps. The organization the Chiefs preside over is a world of "Standard Operating Procedure." S.O.P. is a system designed to assure that things get done, not to find better ways of doing them. Every man has a superior looking over his shoulder and the top men have Congress and the White House peering over theirs...
...getting pretty dull for the Harvard man, until one day he picked up his morning CRIMSON and read "Ku Klux Klan at Harvard--Awaits moment to strike. 'We may be inactive, but our influence is felt' are the Leader's ominous words." The undergraduate began looking over his shoulder to see if he were being followed. President Lowell rose in wrath to expose the miscreants and stamp out any trace of the Klan at Harvard...