Word: spins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Playwright Carolyn Green's epic untidily spins out the thought that a women needs two men to satisfy her needs--an intellectual etherial type to minister to her soul and a breadwinning family man to keep her in expensive clothes. This theme Miss Green manages to spin out for a heavy handed, and for the most part, unfunny three acts. Poorly crafted, the script seems almost a parody of the stock devices that are supposed to make a "hit," or as the play bill calls it, a "wildly romantic comedy." The specifics of the plot involve the wife...
This year, as the big engines splatted into life, the big word was not speed but acceleration. Since almost any new U.S. car can easily top 100 m.p.h., Detroit was interested in showing that its family cars also have the zip to whip away from a stop light and spin up to the legal speed limit in a minimum length of time...
...stock market is extremely sensitive to talk-especially when it comes from high places. Last week a rash of talk from Washington about the state of the U.S. economy unnerved an already shaky market and sent it into a spin...
...either knows where he is going. Or he don't. And if he don't, he has to think, to chin-chin with himself and with his associates, to spin the compass and find North...
From the first spin of the reel, it is plain that the heroine (Judy Holliday) is full of life. As she flap-foots into her average suburban kitchen, her face zombie-like in the spell of some unspeakable urge, it will be obvious to the last row, third balcony, that the lady is pregnant. But what is this dark drive that possesses her? With somnambulistic stare she crosses to the kitchen counter. She reaches for a knife-and then for the bread and peanut butter. She raises the sandwich to her mouth, hesitates. A gleam of madness flickers...