Word: showing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
During intermission, the bearded Canadian almost drowned the show when he served so many drinks to cast and audience that the entire second act played as if the hall were built around an imperial quart. Afterward, Perky offered a farewell round of cheer, announced that he had seen the production for the last time and was content. But when the house lights went dark the following night, there -glistening in the ninth row center-was a familiar white goatee...
...snatched immediately by the impatient copy desk-he delivered his judgment ("inherently hopeless'') on Goodbye Charlie, the comedy he had just seen. Within an hour, the Times's presses were reproducing an appraisal that would be read respectfully, not only by those directly involved in the show, but by everyone connected with the American theater...
...newspapers that smolder indignantly over the transgressions of others, said Estabrook, might well take a good look at their own: "Recently, the press became very exercised about morality when Charles Van Doren put on his show of contrition. But our indignation would be better founded, and more credible, if we also managed to muster a few olfactory shudders about the garbage in our own backyard. Better yet, we might even try to clean...
Critical in the engine's design were the metal "piston rings" at the tips of the triangle that keep the chambers gastight. But NSU says the metal strips show no wear after 300 hours of fullspeed operation. The engine uses a conventional carburetor and can be made to burn many kinds of fuel, including diesel oil. It is not for sale yet, but NSU expects to have it debugged and in large production in about two years...
...well as its survival function." In psychiatry especially, he argues, there used to be an "impression that 'our patients never get well.' " In fact, says Dr. Menninger, the best thing that psychiatrists can do for their patients is to "light for them a candle of hope to show them possibilities that may become sound expectations...