Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more important, it is a film full of violence, some intrigue, snappy dialogue, and Marlene Dietrich. The last asset is generally enough to make any film worthwhile. This particular one, made when techniques were beginning to reach their present excellence, and way before Miss Dietrich became the least touch faded, shows her a really lovely woman. Every once in a while director Joseph von Sternberg took lengthy close-ups of her for no more reason than that he figured most moviegoers wouldn't mind having the story interrupted for a close-up of Miss Dietrich. Decisions like this one made...
Nothing much has been added actually. The new introduction has the twin virtues of being crisper and spoken by Clare Scott. Miss Scott promises fun with a light touch which the rest of the evening can now deliver pretty consistently. The "To the Manor Bron" sketch and the concluding bit could both be shaved again, but with the changes already made in the show, these slow-ups are by far the exceptions. The pace is dazzling now: director Ed Golden being responsible for the production's sharp aim and high gloss...
...Einstein, despite his personal "aloofness," was the most human of men. His kindness and humility, his deep, mystical piety, and his humanitarian political views all indicated that here was a scientist who kept in touch with the people to whom his science was dedicated. And the world realized this. It knew that Einstein, the Universe Maker, was still a warm human being--still the man who could take time to solve a geometry problem for a high school girl...
Wing forward John Chalsty made the second try shortly before half-time when he broke around the short side of a loose scrum, to touch the ball down in the corner. The score at the half...
...grammar; so that our language is in a manner barbarous." The best reference book around was Nathan Bailey's Universal Etymological English Dictionary, but the Bailey brand of definition, e.g., a mouse: "an animal well known," was hardly adequate. Finally, a group of booksellers got in touch with Johnson, persuaded him to compile a dictionary within three years. "But, Sir," remonstrated a friend, "how can you do this in three years . . . ? The French Academy, which consists of 40 members, took 40 years to compile their dictionary." "Sir," replied Johnson, "thus it is. This is the proportion...