Word: tappings
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...prisoners, who are mostly men of science, are all supposed to be working on a project ordered personally by Stalin: a tap-proof phone. But one of their number, Gleb Nerzhin (Gunther Malzacher), keeps finding the time to steal off to a supply closet with one of the warders, Simochka (Elzbieta Czyzewska). "I'd like to leave you with my child," he breathes, lunging for her tunic. "Monday," she shudders, dying to surrender herself but trying also to cope with a pesky short-wave radio that crackles away on a nearby table, summoning her to report. Such sequences evoke...
...result of this technical skill was an illusion of total spontaneity. Though knowing dance experts might point out scornfully that Astaire faked some of Ginger's taps, Astaire never again or before had a partner who produced the same alchemy as Ginger. As Author Croce, who can turn a nice phrase, notes. Ginger had her own qualities: "That beautiful supple back that let her arch from his arms like a black lily," while he produced "those ratcheting tap clusters that fall like loose change from his pockets...
...earnings to send him at the age of ten to something called the Star Time Dance Studios, which gave him just enough coaching to appear at an annual recital at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. "You got out there in your silk shirt, baggy silk pants, and the tap shoes your mother had you paint silver the night before," he remembers happily. "It was a beautiful experience, and if I had to do it over, I'd come up the same...
...that I have met" syndrome whereby the man of action records no inner feelings which do not readily follow the logic of the events in which he is partaking. In accordance with this and with the Hollywood approach to everything in general. Foreman's screen adaptation doss not tap any deep springs of character or political behavior. What we get instead is a robust action flick far above the usual cut, interspersed with the documentary machinery of early rotogravure photographs on mahogany bureaus, newsreel clips of the real Winston, and a decent imitation of Churchill's familiar, lisping voice narrating...
...agents and had obtained confidential records from the Federal Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs, the U.S. Attorney General's office, the Internal Revenue Service and the U.S. Bureau of Customs. Alioto said that they also had gathered information from intercepted mail and an illegal telephone tap operated...