Word: usual
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Fabiani, still presenting his usual weekly wrestling programs, proudly announced plans to bring an impressive roster of Metropolitan Opera stars to Philadelphia next season for opera performances. In his long career, 59-year-old Promoter Fabiani has also treated Philadelphians to professional tennis tournaments, midget auto racing, ice revues, plus such middlebrow musical fare as Mantovani's lush strings. With profits from these enterprises, he has given Philadelphia a new opera company, the Lyric, lured big-name singers with fat fees ($6.500 per recital for Tebaldi...
...most significant failure, however, is linguistic. He appears to be trying for a grander idiom than his customary one, and an occasional line reverberates with more than usual spaciousness. But many of the speeches are merely clumsy, as if the author was aiming for an archaic effect and did not know quite how to achieve...
...contributed greatly to causing it: "These price increases were a major factor in limiting demand." Saulnier singled out for attack the rises in "heavy industries and those producing automobiles and other consumer durables." What worried Washington now was that industrial prices have started to inch up sooner than usual for a recession-recovery period. Though the consumer price index has remained fairly stable since mid-1958, the Fed's Young said that industrial prices have climbed 1½% above the previous record of 1957. That was all Subcommittee Chairman Estes Kefauver had to hear. He warned that big business...
Good old-fashioned pratfall that it is, it was not turned out without heartaches and headaches for Writer-Director-Producer Billy Wilder. It was made last fall, when Actress Monroe, believing herself pregnant, was reportedly more sulkily temperamental than usual, with Playwright-Husband Arthur Miller hovering solicitously on the edge of the set during much of the shooting. What's more, Wilder took the fairly daring risk of turning two of Hollywood's most popular leading men (Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon) into female impersonators...
...window, light is welcomed as a lover. The far corners whisper hello to light. Instead of humping their backs like angry cats the shadows under the furniture are purring. A lady smooths a tablecloth: light smooths it for her and gently holds her hand upon it, saying, 'This usual busy morning is forever...