Word: stooped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most fantastically irreal estate since Prince Potemkin's villages-have had a drastic effect on the American way of life. But who can actually say what the effect has been? Have they created a split-level personality? Is the American male developing a barbecue pituitary or a carport stoop? Is his wife, with all her built-in conveniences, becoming a technological unemployee...
...elbow of Nikita Khrushchev, as he toured East Germany this summer, appeared a new traveling partner, sallow, stoop-shouldered, scowling. Unlike the previous sidekick, Bulganin, who looked like an amiable riverboat gambler living it up, this saturnine little man seemed to shrink from the speechmaking and the public panoply, the peculiar rites and duties of the proletarian potentates who parade about holding durbars in subject states like 19th century monarchs, while talking over their shoulders to the press like 20th century pols. Yet the world noted, as it was meant to, that wherever the Russians went in East Berlin, Deputy...
Battle-weary after skirmishes with union cooks and waiters who have thrown an inelegant picket line around his posh Manhattan saloon, Stork Club Proprietor Sherman Billingsley .withdrew to his East Side town house, discovered that the working class had infiltrated his defenses. Perched on his front stoop, six house painters were chomping sandwiches and enjoying the sun. Spying out union men behind the ham on rye, Billingsley invited the workmen to "get the hell out of here," waved a .25 automatic. Summoned to the station house, Billingsley showed up with Attorney Roy Cohn, doe-eyed onetime boy commando...
...shape ... So can come Fascism to a whole race of people." But TV Adapter William F. Durkee Jr. chose to tread the simpler level of the story-the interplay between a clod husband, a deceitful lodger, and a restive wife who dreams of escape from the back stoop of life. Ironically, the portraits seemed to fall out of television focus when wisps of Odets ideas slipped in. Actor E. G. Marshall was brilliant as the cuckolded husband who yearned for ''a little warm house in the snow where you were told what to do, like in school." Actress...
...alternately spirited and lethargic. Especially in her tussling with Olivier, she seems more directed by him than acting with him-as if by wiggling his off-camera ear he gives her the cue to giggle. Conversely, Olivier, almost embarrassed by being an on-camera Svengali. often appears to stoop gallantly to make his protégée as towering as he is. The highlights of any such Graustarkian foolishness usually, though strangely, come when Graustark momentarily seems real. Olivier does the trick, facing Marilyn's gee-whiz antics on their carriage-borne way to Westminster Abbey, when...