Word: silent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...swarming demand for studio space has revived and even expanded old movie lots that had been virtually silent almost since the silent movie days. In the Kling Studios where Charlie Chaplin made The Gold Rush, and on lots that twinkled with the names of Theda Bara, Mary Pickford, Harold Lloyd and Janet Gaynor, TV now grinds out commercials and films-Burns & Allen, Ozzie & Harriet...
...pushed him to 16 ft. ¶ Russia's Vassily Smyslov, an aspiring concert baritone, needed only 22 games to depose nine-year World Chess Champion Mikhail Botvinnik, 12½-9½. Anxious to meet all challengers, Smyslov expects to face no females. Says he: "They could not stay silent for five hours straight...
...would al agre that the horible mes of silent 'E's' in our language is disgrasful. Therfor, in 1961, we kould drop thes and kontinu to read and writ merily along as though we wer in an atomik ag of eduka-tion. Sins by this tim it would be four years sins anywun had used the leter 'C', we would then sugest substituting...
Such was the comedy of Buster Keaton, the granddaddy of deadpan and one of the four or five masters of the sight gag produced by Hollywood during the silent days. In the sequences adapted from the old two-reelers, these gags prove as good as ever they were, and provide the public with about ten minutes' worth of belly-shaking fun. But when this earnest little biopus turns from Keaton's silent comedies to his noisy domestic tragedies, the guffaws turn to unmitigated guff. Donald O'Connor, who plays the title role, does pretty well with...
...less-often heard of Haydn's symphonies, has an unusual musical structure--one of the movements is marked "recitative," and consists of a dialogue between solo violin and orchestra. There is also an extended duet for solo violin and 'cello, during which the other instruments remain silent. Concertmaster Daniel Musher and 'cellist Sigrid Lemlein played these passages adequately, althought Musher's intonation was sometimes weak and his phrasing lacked clear articulation. Miss Lemlein drew a warm, full tone from her 'cello. The last movement has the jollity and bad-image typical of Haydn's finales, and the orchestra communicated this...