Word: thread
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Miss Davis' real life husband, Gary Merrill, is better cast as a good samaritan who fumbles around with several lives. But these lives are only a series of soap operas which the producers string together with a very frail thread...
...been booted ignominiously from Iran, set upon in Egypt, ambushed in Malaya, even sniped at by Argentina. Burma has left the Commonwealth, Ceylon is thinking of leaving. Six of the great overseas Dominions are now as sovereign as Britain itself, legally bound to the mother island only by the thread of mutual allegiance to the Crown. India, though a Dominion, does not even recognize the Crown. Except for short periods, Britain has been unable to pay its way since 1918. At an alarming rate, its once-rich holdings overseas have gone...
...inside the door can stare at its coldly gleaming curve and watch the whole face of the building without leaving cover. Along the building's window ledges run beams of infra-red light, each hitched to an alarm system. The windows themselves are intricately wired, and hidden wires thread through walls and partitions. No visitor is admitted to this stronghold except for a very good reason, and once a visitor is inside, he is watched and escorted continuously, even when he goes to the toilet...
Perhaps it's just as well that the plot is practically non-existent until near the end of the second act. For its first three-fourths, the play is simply a below-par musical revue, a series of mediocre songs and dances unhampered by any connecting thread. Indeed, Jo Mielziner's one set does remind you that this is all taking place on a rather battered Showboat, but there is no other perceptible connection with...
Brother Salesius revived after a few moments, and made his way back to his quarters at St. Mary's Hospital. He asked one of the nuns to lend him a needle & thread to sew up a tear in his clothes, but said nothing of what had happened...