Word: taming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...longest (134 minutes) horse opera ever made was finally being shown to the public. In Los Angeles, David 0. Selznick's Technicolored Duel in the Sun was running simultaneously in two theaters. Local reviewers found the extravaganza a titillating blend of wild oats and tame, well-worn plot, in which virtue emerged triumphant, but low-bodiced vice seemed to have all the fun. Nevertheless, the furor was up to Selznick's expectations-if not quite the kind of furor he had paid his advertising money...
Last week the Mahdi sat quietly in his villa, watching his tame cranes and awaiting the results of his mission. In Cairo, diplomats, hard at work on an Anglo-Egyptian treaty of alliance, were deadlocked over the Sudan's future. Probable compromise: the Sudan would be formally placed under the Egyptian crown, but actual administration would remain in the hands of the British (who would lay the groundwork for eventual self-government...
...rest of the show much of a help. Ira Gershwin's lyrics are neat enough, and the mainstay of two lively ditties, Don't Be a Woman If You Can and Land of Opportunitee; but Composer Schwartz gives you nothing whatever to hum. The dancing is agreeably tame, the chorus is more slight than select, the costumes lack charm and the singing lacks body. Leonora Corbett (Blithe Spirit) and Arthur Margetson (Around the World) are helpful performers but no miracle-workers. Park Avenue never catches the mood, or captures the lure, or achieves the high spirits of genuine...
Iraq's King Feisal I used to spend his spare time playing with a tame leopard. His son, King Feisal II, 11, a more progressive monarch, has spent his summer holidays in Britain studying Western industrial methods. At an oil refinery the boy king from Bagdad sat in at a round-table discussion of scientists and technicians. In the course of the discussion one expert said: "I always find I can think much quicker when I am riding a bicycle." Asked King Feisal II: "Why don't you ride a motorbike and think twice as quickly...
...city life more than Claude-Henri. For 15 years he was a failure in Montreal, writing acid critiques and a bad book. Then he returned to his birthplace, Ste. Adèle, to set forth in a monthly pamphlet his views on almost everything. Since his views are never tame, he offended nearly everyone. Finally, he wrote a short novel, and the radio adaptation, begun in 1939, became Un Homme...