Word: utters
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...another column, Baker reported that "we are at NBC News headquarters in Provo, Utah. Chet Huntley's face is in the hands of the cosmeticians. They have massaged its familiar wrinkles and laugh lines into an expression of utter objectivity." Meanwhile in Biloxi, Miss., David Brinkley is having his eyebrows shaved so he can't raise them...
...shock, in the very act of profanation, some sense of the sacred would be reborn and reconfirmed. Opposites imply each other. Grotowski shows an audience the passion of man, his agony, his desolation, his death, and above all the violation of his body and his spirit. By portraying the utter humiliation of man, Grotowski reminds one that no prouder being ever issued from the hand...
...even this lust cannot explain the extent to which he has decayed since Henry IV. Three times he is totally humiliated. It was easy to laugh each time but successively less so, and if it were not for the utter charm which permeated the last scene it would have been difficult to accept it at all. This scene, though perhaps a bit of an addendum, was like Midsummer Night's Dream all over again...
...Arabs in 1967. Naval commandos were the first to go into action in the Gulf of Suez, blasting two Egyptian torpedo boats. Next, an Israeli armored unit of 150 men ferried across the gulf in landing craft, spent ten hours shooting up troops, bases and radar installations with utter impunity along a dusty strip of Egyptian coastline. Not until two days later did the Egyptians reply by sending swarms of MIG fighters and Sukhoi bombers aloft, but Israel's air force quickly routed them...
...Libel suits, and the threat of libel suits, are an embarrassed public official's reflex response to exposure. Yet few suits ever reach the trial stage, particularly in the light of recent Supreme Court decisions involving libel of public figures. To win, Alioto must prove malicious intent or utter carelessness in checking on the part of Look, Carlson and Brisson. Butts won his case because the Post made virtually no effort to check the story. Look, however, released a statement saying that many man-hours were spent checking and re-checking the piece. While some foresaw Alioto...