Word: snores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soft Snore. A dull, droning speaker at best, Thurmond began by reading the texts of the election laws of all 48 states-from Alabama to Wyoming. By 11:30, Republican Everett Dirksen was passing the word: "Boys, it looks like an all-nighter." But at 1 a.m. Arizona Republican Barry Goldwater approached Thurmond's desk, asked in a whisper how much longer Strom would last. Back came the answer: "About another hour." Goldwater asked that Thurmond temporarily yield the floor to him for an insertion in the Congressional Record. Thurmond happily consented-and used the few-minute interim...
...Campbell could match him: "Laugh and the world laughs with you; snore and you sleep alone." Or, "When you were a little boy, someone should have said 'Hush' just once...
...snore loud and deep...
...perhaps none too soon. Krull is surprisingly funny, but at times the humor is as heavy as Kartoffelklosse-and not helped by a translation that misses much of the hero-villain's comic pomposity. The action falls asleep at one point while Mann delivers himself of a monumental snore : a 20-page lecture on the nature of the universe...
...clear in Grand Illusion (1938) and The River (1951), Director Renoir is often too full of beautiful things he wants to say to pay a decent respect to how he says them. Bad scenes stand out glaringly against the fine features of his films. The story sometimes has to snore in the parlor while Renoir fondly lingers to adjust an esthetic or intellectual spit curl. All the same, his pulsing joy in all he feels and sees sweeps through his pictures...