Word: stunner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Break Out to Bop. Russia has always been a musical nation, so it came as no surprise that the Russians played well. The stunner was how closely the Russians caught the sense of the music, particularly the sad throb of the blues. There were times, says Ruff, "when the renditions came close to eloquence." Where the Russians fall short is on improvisation. After one demonstration at which Ruff and Mitchell improvised around a current Russian song, a young man asked for the score. "They couldn't understand." says Mitchell, "that except for the basic chords...
...representing the beauty of their respective areas. Poured into white bathing suits, the girls swiveled decorously down a runway under the judges' fastened, clinical eyes. Then, with the pomp of a St. James's coronation, the winner was crowned: Leona Gage (Miss Maryland), 21, a dark-haired stunner (5 ft. 9½ in., 118 Ibs.; 36-23-36). The prizes: a $1,000 wardrobe, a $2,000 contract with a cosmetics firm, a house trailer, a European trip, and a chance to compete with 32 other girls for the job of Miss Universe...
...High Noon) Zinnemann's direction is light and sure. Hero Gordon MacRae acts with a winning warmth and naturalness, and shows a voice as clear and flexible as any in Hollywood. James Whitmore, Jay Flippen, Eddie Albert and Charlotte Greenwood are good in secondary roles, but the real stunner of the show is the heroine, a 21-year-old newcomer from Smithton, Pa. named Shirley Jones. She has a milky, springtime skin, a creamy figure, and a smile like melting butter. Her brook-clear soprano is the best voice in the picture. In her next movie, Carousel, she will...
...Stunner. Congressman followed Congressman in assault on the bill. Cried Illinois' Mason: "Just remember all of those billions we have given away and what good did it do us? All those foreign countries hate America. Thank God I didn't vote a penny for the giveaway program." West Virginia's Democratic Representative Cleveland Bailey rambled for 30 minutes, then said: "Now I'll pass on rapidly to the subject at hand." Chairman Smith glanced at the Navy-type, 24-hour clock on the wall, murmured: "Thank you." A few minutes later, Smith called for a vote...
...place, a forefinger pushed up on his temple. Beside him sat G.O.P. Whip Leslie Arends, nervously looking around the chamber. On the Democratic side, Majority Leader John McCormack huddled with aides. When the vote came-on a motion to consider the amendment-barring rule -it was a stunner: the motion was defeated...