Word: snap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...carried on backwards "by mistake" so that the audience can read the stagehands' identifying labels on the reverse before they are coyly righted. And at the final wedding in the heart of the forest, the group is immortalized a photographer with a camera and appears out of nowhere to snap picture...
With his great bull whip, so goes the legend, Columbia Pictures' late President Harry ("The White Fang") Cohn liked to snap out the lenses of his flunkies' sunglasses. That sort of management more or less characterized the feudal days when the major studio bosses-Goldwyn, Mayer, the Warners, Cohn-were almost as well known as their stars. Now that Hollywood is often duller than its pictures, the mighty name symbolizing the new Age of the Independent Producer is roughly as well known as the incumbent ruler of Bhutan...
...chronicle of mental collapse. When she learns that her lover is having an affair with someone else, she takes to roaming the streets at night in her secondhand car, following the couple from bar to bar, parking outside the man's apartment until the lights in his bedroom snap off. She manages to break up the affair, but it does not help. Whenever she feels "the quivering, shaking uncertainty coming near her," she sneaks off and recites the story of her abortion aloud, "using the crudest words she could think of." For a time she tries to become pregnant...
...enough of what Harvard requires, then the interview works beautifully. It provides an important and different kind of information." But new men on the job or those who lack the necessary breadth may run into difficulty, Doermann says, and another weakness of the interview is that it is a snap judgment. "You have to take interview reports in perspective," he warns, a sentiment with which Glimp would agree...
...Angeles Times-Mirror Syndicate signed up ex-Vice President Richard M. Nixon to write at least ten articles in the next ten months, gave him freedom with subjects and deadlines, confidently expected newspapers from Europe to Japan to snap up the series...