Word: squirmings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jampacked staid old Symphony Hall on the first leg of a 60-city tour. The crowd, a cross section of the musical public from teen-agers to grandparents, was there to listen rather than to participate. When slight, unassuming Bandleader Mantovani walked solemnly on stage, the crowd seemed to squirm with delight. When he played such favorites as Always, Green Sleeves, Moulin Rouge and Schubert's Ave Maria, the communal catch in the throat was almost audible. Afterwards, autograph hunters queued up quietly outside his dressing room. They received his dignified thanks and left, pleased and satisfied...
...goes. Sex is sickness, love is a torment. A lesser writer could not get away with such loaded dice, but Moravia is a first-rate craftsman and he can make the reader squirm along with his characters...
...Heartbreak Hotel was the nation's No. 1 best-selling record, and Elvis Presley himself was appearing at Las Vegas' New Frontier and getting a taste of more adult audiences. There was little screaming to be heard, but some fully grown female listeners matched the star squirm for squirm. As for Elvis, he spent some of his offstage time amusing local showgirls, but most of it amusing himself in a small amusement park, where, for hours on end, he and his cronies rode the dodgem cars, having a wonderful time...
Diabolique still makes audiences squirm at the Beacon Hill. Horrible in a fascinating sort of way, shows are at 2,4,6,8,10, and not in between...
Tennessee Williams is much like a schoolboy who pulls the wings off flies to watch them squirm, but in place of flies, the playwright looks at people trapped in their own moral degeneracy. This process is hardly a pleasant one, yet in The Rose Tattoo, Williams very skillfully adapts it to the purposes of comedy. It is not a kind of humor, though, that will give an audience a feeling of lighthearted pleasure--it is sweaty and intense and at times almost brutal...