Word: tempting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HIGH SPIRITS. A house was never haunted by so blithe a spirit as Tammy Grimes, and Bea Lillie is the comic conjurer who brings her back to earth to tempt her husband and torture his second wife...
...Tempt the Devil. Over a midnight snack, lush Marina Vlady mulls over legal problems with her lawyer-lover, Pierre Brasseur. She has recently disposed of her wealthy husband, neatly pinned the murder on his nurse-mistress. But things aren't working out according to plan. "I wish I hadn't bothered with the serum," she pouts. Then, "Oh well . . . next time." As a girl whose Mona Lisa face masks the soul of a Borgia, Actress Vlady almost turns Devil into an elegant spoof of French justice. Brasseur, too, seems drolly aware that Justice is a lady...
Although his themes are hollowness and banality, Pinter never gets boring or inane. Symbols constantly tempt the imagination. The pathetic small talk that dominates his dialogue generates a grotesque humor. While Pinter's characters chatter the same phrases over and over, his plays take on a futility that makes them funny and an expectancy that makes them suspenseful. The comic tone shuts off as a climax approaches, because in Pinter's drama a slow disinterment of inner tragedy creates the suspense...
Danger never bothered Wallace ("Bud") Werner. He did not deliberately tempt it; for him it just never existed. Some might call that ignorant or childish or foolhardy, but within the special company of downhill racers, Bud Werner won only admiration and respect. Austrians called him "the cowboy from Colorado"; autographed photos of his boyish face decorated the walls of stores and inns in ski towns like Kitzbühel and Bad Gastein...
Baseball was truly the national pastime when eleven-year-old John Drebinger saw his first big-league game. In that half-forgotten summer of 1902, baseball meant two-bit bleacher seats in the sun and no night games. There was no TV either, to tempt pitchers and managers into time-wasting histrionics. The players were public heroes, and fan's wore their hearts on their sleeves...