Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just three weeks and one day after he entered Walter Reed Hospital, Dwight Eisenhower once again stepped back onto solid, ground-level pavement. His face and neck were noticeably thin; at 163 Ibs., he had gained back just one of the seven pounds he lost after his ileitis operation. His brown summer-weight suit now fitted a little loosely, his West Point-squared shoulders looked lean. With Mamie on his arm to lend balance, the President carefully took the five steps down from the hospital exit, mustered up one of his fine smiles and a wave for the battery...
...extra week in the hospital was ordered partly to help Ike gain back some of the 7 lbs. stripped away by his illness, partly because he was still short of full recovery. He is down to 162 lbs., is thin around the face. After a diet that progressed from broth and water to cereal and innumerable chopped-beef patties, he was at last getting some rib-filling steaks and vegetables. But the longer stay also is conducive to serious thinking. After his heart attack, Ike made a careful assessment of the future before agreeing to run again. Now, with...
Like most Chayefsky plots, the story of Affair is thin. Debbie Reynolds and her schoolteacher beau (Rod Taylor) plan a quiet, quick marriage in order to take advantage of a free auto trip to California for their honeymoon. Her careworn parents (Bette Davis and Ernest Borgnine) agree-until the neighbor start talking ("Why so sudden? Is she in trouble?"). Then the parents meet their prospective in-laws, who relate, down to the last insufferable penny, how many thousands they spent in properly marrying off their own daughters. Bette Davis digs in her heels, insists that Debbie get a marriage...
...about to marry another. Antonia's husband has moved elsewhere. Antonia is found at her dinner table with her devoted maid clearing away from the table the service her husband will never use again, and mooning mistily on a possible affair with a tall, thin intellectual type. It is a situation in which many Hokinson-type matrons might like to find themselves, but Antonia prefers looking backward to the scenes of her foolish youth, when the worst disaster life had to offer was an unsuitable organdy dress her ringmaster-mother obliged her to wear to a party...
That Certain Feeling (Paramount) is a movie adaptation of the 1954 Broadway hit, King of Hearts, by Jean Kerr and Eleanor Brooke, a comedy that screened its thin plot behind an electrical display of wisecracks. Hollywood has added twice as many writers (Norman Panama, Melvin Frank, I.A.L. Diamond, William Altman) and got a corresponding increase in plot and even a few more jokes...