Word: thrill
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nutcracker; and Frank Schaufuss and Mona Vangsaa, who gave a touching performance of ill-fated young love in Romeo and Juliet. Londoners, used to the heady perfection of Sadler's Wells, loved the more natural Danes, brought them back again & again to bow to the applause-a thrill they seldom get at home in Denmark, where tradition strictly limits curtain calls...
Apart from these minor divertissements, there are two things that lend this slow-paced, obvious picture some fun. One is the young playwright and his literary labor pains, written here & there with a real touch of wit. As the egocentric fellow in search of a wife who will thrill him, worship him, and make about $75 a week, Newcomer Tom Morton is effective, in a junior-Brando sort of way. The other redeeming feature is Tallulah Bankhead, as the star for whom Playwright Morton is trying to build a vehicle. She plays a bowdlerized version of herself, fancying herself demure...
...Czar. "But the Russians can't keep their Panzers here forever," said a young East Berliner lying wounded in a West Berlin hospital. "When they leave, we will fight again until they change the government." On both sides of the Iron Curtain, the world heard with a thrill of East Berlin's rebellion in the rain. Until Wednesday, the 17th of June, the world had come increasingly to believe that inside a modern mechanized tyranny, it is hopeless to resist. Now hope was possible...
Citation: "Son of the spacious American Southwest, whose breadth of vision, adventurous spirit, and free-reined energy have electrified the business world with all the thrill of a western romance...
...Thrill-Killer Nathan Leopold, 48, serving a life term in Joliet, Ill. prison for teaming with Richard Loeb (knifed to death by a fellow inmate in 1936) in the 1924 Chicago murder of 14-year-old Bobby Franks, learned that the parole board had turned down his bid for freedom after 28 years in stir because he "is not the right type of man to go back to society." Told not to apply for parole again until 1965, Leopold, a Phi Beta Kappa who has studied 26 languages in prison, said he was "somewhat disappointed," but could "only accept...