Word: swingeing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Horrors of the Black Museum is in full swing. And from all the prop rooms of all the studios comes the full stock of exotic murder weapons. First a beautiful young woman with blue eyes and decolletage receives a pair of binoculars as an anonymous gift. Her roommate (brown eyes and decolletage) reports the murder promptly...
Every fall, as delegates to the 82-nation U.N. General Assembly troop into the glass palace on Manhattan's East River, the world undergoes its equivalent of the annual visit to the dentist. Last week, as the Assembly's 14th session got into full swing, the patient's mouth was wide open and, amid plenty of hollering and yelping, virtually all of mankind's political cavities, abscesses and fillings were mercilessly probed...
...answers bore no relation to his own fate. "Do you know," asked Prosecuting Counsel Maxwell Turner, leaning forward with heavy jowls jutting out, "what is the punishment for capital murder in England?" Replied Podola indifferently: "They told me in prison. Either you get off or"-he let his hand swing down from the elbow-"it will be hanging." And never once was Podola trapped into an admission of memory. Asked to explain a witness' report that he had remarked that both English and French were spoken in Montreal shops, he answered impatiently: "I don't know...
...strong today as when the army booted the dictator four years ago. The Peronistas still burn candles to Peron's late wife, Eva, whom they call "St. Eva Immortal.'' They control 88 out of 138 trade unions and with their 2,000,000 votes can swing close elections (as they did in Frondizi's favor last year...
...finest Shakespearean actors anywhere; though still very young, he is one of a handful who can boast of having acted in all thirty-seven of the Bard's plays. He provided a warm, even-keeled production on William D. Roberts' stunning, three-story set, complete with lanterns and garden swing. As Beatrice and Benedick, Rosemary Harris and Barry Morse made a strong pair of unwilling lovers, spitting out their wit with clarity and verve. They were less reliable than their C.D.F. counterparts, but at times surpassed the Gielgud-Leighton team. (Alfred Drake still remains the best Benedick this country...