Word: soon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...competently. With an irreverent sneer at their proper predecessors, they succeeded and survived because they were tough, not because they were notably intelligent. Things happened to them: they faced pistols, boredom, and bad stomachs from too many foul meals eaten on the run. Hammett's Sam Spade soon found an acceptable running mate in Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe who would tell the girls: "The first time we met, I told you I was a detective. Get it through your lovely head. I work at it, lady. I don't play at it." At his best...
...tension builds well to the climax-thanks partly to Director Robert Wise (I Want to Live!), partly to an able Negro scriptwriter named John O. Killens, but mostly to Actor Ryan, a menace who can look bullets and smile sulphuric acid. But the tension is released too soon-and much too trickily. The spectator is left with a feeling that is aptly expressed in the final frame of the film, when the camera focuses on a street sign that reads: STOP-DEAD...
...barely able to finish playing Liszt's Melancholy Waltz. Although X rays disclosed no abnormality in the hand, neither cortisone nor treatment by a neurologist was able to restore full use to De Groot's fingers. He set about learning what left-hand compositions he could find, soon decided that there were not enough to keep a concert career going...
Last week the rectors of West Germany's universities, which still recognize East German degrees, gave notice that soon they may give up. Sternly, the rectors rejected invitations to join Leipzig's birthday celebration, which to them seemed only a wake. Leipzig's rector, a complaisant agriculturist named Georg Mayer who took over in 1948, seemed undismayed by the widening gap between his institution and those of West Germany. Further widening, said he as Party Boss Ulbricht beamed, "is an objective necessity...
...soon clear that the twins' livers were joined. But before this problem could be faced, the surgeons separated the rib cages, found that the hearts were surrounded by a fused sac. They cut it so that Jeanett's heart had a normal sac; Denett's was open until they stitched it shut. Major blood vessels to the liver proved to be separate, but in cutting the bridge dividing the two organs, no fewer than 75 minor vessels had to be cut, and their bleeding stanched. Separated at last, each twin had her own quartet working independently...