Word: talling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...London performance of The Second Man, Harold Laski introduced the playwright to a tremendously tall British lord ("He seemed interminable.") Sensing that the nobleman was not interested in the conversation, Laski said, "You know, Mr. Behrman wrote the play you're seeing tonight...
...Captain. He goes on from there to shouters (Lead Man Holler), love songs (I Do Adore Her), songs of thanksgiving (Merci Bon Dieu), an Israeli Hora (Hava Nageela). Belafonte has developed a remarkable emotional pantomime to match the content of his songs. In John Henry, he hunches his tall, lithe body (6 ft. 2 in., 185 Ibs.) in a half crouch, knots his fists, launches into the verses with teeth clenched and a spasmodic toss of his head...
...cried. Oh, God, how he cried!" On screen or off, Belafonte has a kind of visual magnetism that emerges whenever he moves. Says MacDougall: "People can recognize Harry Belafonte even when he's walking across an 80-foot screen looking about one and a half inches tall...
...office No. 2E800 on the Pentagon's select second-floor "E" ring, behind a VIP desk, sits a tall, somber man handsomely dressed in a conservative suit of dark blue. No general, no admiral, but a civilian, he has the imposing job of seeing that the story of national defense gets told fully and well-a duty of exquisite sensitivity. Against the strictures of national security he must nicely weigh the nation's right to know. He must assure that the enemy is steadily impressed with the facts of U.S. deterrent might. The man in this crucial...
...honor Rome but to bury her." Author Caldwell ends her story as Lucanus meets Christ's mother, in a din of paraphrased Hail Marys and purple Passion ("She stood against the background of the hot and brazen mounts, and it seemed to him that she had grown very tall, and that she was clothed in pure light, and that her face beamed like the moon when it was full"'). In short, the book-a sure bestseller-is about on a par with the five-and-ten plaster statues of the saints and prettily painted picture postcards of Christ...