Word: tween
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...best picture. As a punched-out prizefighter, croaking in the high voice of a man who has taken too many on the windpipe, he manages to make the swollen-featured, illiterate pug touchingly appealing. While making the picture. Quinn stood around in seeming torpor for long stretches be tween takes, to the amazement of Fellow Actor Jackie Gleason. Says Quinn defensively: "I can't turn it on and off. Gleason plucks it off the tree and eats it raw. I have to marinate it. It comes very hard...
Further fascinating pages from the au thor's already fat but never fatuous note book of English upper-class doings be tween the wars...
...contempt for politicians, would not dream of letting them ruin his work with their "parliamentary impotency." In addition to a popularly elected President, who will be chosen in March to a four-year term, the new constitution provides for a Premier whose role is limited to liaison man be tween the President and a unicameral legislature of 150 to 200 members who will have no veto powers over the executive. The President, on the other hand, is given enough power to make Charles de Gaulle look like a front man. Foremost candidate for the job: Park Chung...
...rather special segment of mankind occupies Kingsley's boozy, smoke-hazy, symbolic inferno, a red-velours-lined Manhattan key club. But essentially the members of this eclectic hell divide be tween the damned and the dim. The damned shine phosphorescently. The dim give off flickers of goodness. Among the damned: an ambisextrous movie queen (Salome Jens), a thuggish labor czar (Neville Brand). Among the dim: a songstress with maternal yearnings (Carol Lawrence), a lawyer with a festering case of Korean combat fatigue (Jack Kelly), an aging poet-turned-furniture-dealer (Walter Abel) and his wife (Carmen Mathews...
...Shade of Difference begins, the demands of the presidency have put some steel into Harley's spine, and the U.S. has put some men on the moon. When the Russians give the U.S. a choice be tween surrendering or being annihilated by an attack from the moon, Harley stands up to the Reds. The Russians are cowed, the West is saved, and Drury, having made a dutiful pass at bridging his two books, turns to a brand-new theme...