Word: toole
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some directors struggle continuously to open up a play in film terms: Lester blows the whole show into eye-catching fragments, now freezing the action in frame, now running a scene backward or flashing titles across the screen to identify such commonplace objects as A Saw, A Tool Kit, Girls. The tricks are diverting at first, but finally smack of gimmickry. In the midst of so much frenzy, nothing can really happen, and the dialogue is whipped off at a tommy-gun clip in accents that challenge comprehension anywhere west of Land's End. Only Actress Tushingham and Michael...
...fall, ten summer veterans had banded to gether. Howard Slater (Yale Law '66) recalls "our common revulsion" at the campus attitude back home. "Law stu dents seemed so preoccupied with success as measured in dollars, with the study of law as an academic game rather than as a tool for social justice...
...Cooper first described his "ice scalpel" and a new way to shoot liquid nitrogen through the brain to freeze part of the thalamus as a treatment for Parkinson's disease (TIME, July 6, 1962). Now, Dr. Cooper's cold is surgery's hottest technique - a tool for treating a dozen or more conditions in all parts of the body...
...down to earth . . . because I know you're anything but a saint?" Yet David seems firmly earthbound from the beginning, a man clearly cut out to rip the cloth rather than to wear it. By making him an aspirant for the pulpit, Bramhall turns David into a blunt tool for tedious bludgeoning of religion, superflous to plot and good taste alike...
...fiery and fighting speech and an impressive affirmation of Wilson's determination to continue to defend the pound, and use every orthodox monetary and fiscal tool to get Britain's creaking economy moving again. Not everyone was convinced that Wilson's new budget (TIME, April 16) can do the job as well as he hopes. One banker reminded the Prime Minister of the fate of King Canute who ordered the tide to recede - and ended up a wetback. Replied Wilson cockily: "I, unlike Canute, have waited until high tide before giving my command...