Word: squealing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What was intensely irritating about the show was its phony air of spontaneity, with every delighted squeal ("Darling, I haven't seen you in ages'') and every "ad-lib"' joke carefully put down beforehand by veteran Radio-TV Writer Goodman Ace and a staff of three. Typical of the show's calculated coyness was the time Tallulah Bankhead (whose parody of herself is becoming increasingly pathetic) started to tell a joke about some Texans in Paris, only to be cut off by a commercial. Writer-Producer Ace promises that on successive shows a guest will...
...Power Man. In Cleveland, the new star is a tall, trim (6 ft. 3 in., 190 Ibs.), swarthily handsome rightfielder, who makes the bobby-soxers squeal, pulls seasoned fans into Cleveland Stadium two hours early to watch him take his cuts in the batting cage. When he comes to the plate during a game, the stands fall silent and candy butchers ignore customers to steal a look. Rocco Domenico Colavito, just turned 26, stirs excitement every time he picks up his medium (33 oz.) bat, paws with his right foot in the box until he is rooted like...
Miss Daneel is a very captivating woman, but she is frequently unconvincing as an actress. She is supposed to cry at several points, for example, but a drier eye was never seen. Moreover, she tends to squeal when she speaks, and she minces about excessively. Mr. Danielewski is the more successful of the pair. But it takes an extremely experienced artist to direct himself in a starring role, and even then the results usually leave much to be desired. His performance is too subdued, his staging indecisive and vague, and there is far too much stage business. He does...
Diners near the bandstand could hear the squeal of the buzz mute being fitted into the bell of the horn. The pudgy little man with the wispy mustache lifted the tarnished trumpet, looked right to the piano player, back to the drummer. Then Trumpeter Jonah Jones patted out two measures with a soft left foot and took the first three pickup notes of I Could Have Danced All Night...
...went on to win $98,500). An employee of the show, said Snodgrass who refused to identify the culprit, coached him in the proper gestures of hesitation in the isolation booth, paid to have his teeth cleaned for the bright TV lights and later begged him not to squeal...