Word: straightaways
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Great balls of betel nut," roars Ives as he looks deep into the drawing-room eyes of the new arrival, "they've sent me a totok" which is Dutch slang for greenhorn. Straightaway, Ives saves scene after scene of the picture by stealing it. Guzzling what he calls P.G. (pure gin) from a half-gallon tin, charging and trumpeting like a white war elephant in a Panama suit, Ives produces his gutsiest acting triumph since Big Daddy...
...thrill blasting down the straightaway at 180 m.p.h. What's really thrilling is taking a 70-m.p.h. corner at 75-coming through it at the absolute limit of tire adhesion, with the nose pointed perfectly down the straightaway and the throttle flat on the floor. Then you feel like an artist who has spent his life trying to paint the smile of Mona Lisa, finally gets it right with a single flick of his brush, and says to the rest of the world, "There, you bastards, match that!" There are not many who can even come close to Britain...
Later he explained that Gardes is a "sensationally good officer, but he walked into this situation like a child. I saw straightaway that he could not win." He added...
...young marrieds. The cult of the lowest common denominator had found its high priest in Ollie Treyz, and with an almost evangelical zeal he went on to schedule such landmarks of mediocrity as Hawaiian Eye, Bourbon Street Beat, Surfside 6, The Roaring '20$, The Rifleman, The New Breed, Straightaway, My Three Sons, The Hathaways, Follow the Sun, Lawman, Adventures in Paradise and Bus Stop...
...Straightaway (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Gloria Swanson's TV debut, as-guess what?-an aging film queen, accused of hit-and-run driving...