Word: strutted
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...dialogue. Indeed, the absence of what passes for human speech in most movie scripts will probably attract more customers to this show than the presence of well-known dancers (Igor Youskevitch, Tamara Toumanova, Claire Sombert, Diana Adams, Belita, Carol Haney, Tommy Rail), who do not get much chance to strut their stuff...
...Berlin there is no spot better suited to the Hitchcock scheme of things than a rustic, semi-deserted corner known on the U.S. side as Rudow and in the Russian zone, just over the way, as Alt-Glienicke. Self-important ducks and chickens strut like commissars in Alt-Glienicke's cobbled streets. Berlin's only working windmill turns lazily in the breeze near by, and close to the boundary separating East and West stands a U.S. radar station, bending its reticular ear to the operations at East Berlin's busy Schönefeld Airport. Two rings...
Died. William Bushnell Stout, 75, famed aviation pioneer, builder of the first (1918) internal-strut, cantilever-wing U.S. aircraft, the first commercial monoplane (in 1919) and the first all-metal plane (a Navy torpedo bomber in 1922), co-designer of the famed Ford Tri-motor ("Tin Goose") in 1925; of a heart attack; in Phoenix, Ariz...
Creatively, Marlowe matches his hero's immoderacies ; he shows a like hunger and fever, a commensurate strut and rant. But, as mounted by Director Guthrie, the play has its genuine glories, with scene after scene resembling a kind of richly lighted Delacroix canvas. And, as played by Actor Anthony Quayle, Tamburlaine has his very real magnificences, with speech after speech boasting Marlowe's leap and resonance...
...feet from the ground, but made the landing safely, brakes on-he thought. Deciding to start his engine unaided, he advanced the throttle, jumped out of the cockpit and swung the prop. To his surprise, as the engine started, the plane began to move. Thrower grabbed a wing strut, but was unable to hold the plane; it roared downfield, took off and began circling the airport at a height of 15 ft. Twice the plane buzzed the control tower, then, gaining altitude, it began a lazy flight over Sydney's thickly populated suburbs...