Word: vacant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...problem with conductors is that they seem to live such a long time.* For a young man on the way up, there rarely seems to be a vacant podium at the top. But lately, three comparative youngsters have won major successes in Europe...
...being born he had been sent by Wirephoto. His comedy is the comedy of the hopelessly normal, mass-produced joe in the hopelessly insane, mass-produced situation. In six years and 14 pictures (Mr. Roberts, Some Like It Hot, The Apartment), he has become a master of the vacant take, the eloquent huh, the rare, precise grimace, the sudden, desperate, Lemmoniacal burst of energy...
...street, screaming: "Oh, those people are burning to death!" A passing priest rushed into his church for holy oil and ran out again to administer rites to the charred bodies. Seven alarms jammed the area with fire equipment. Ambulances lined up at makeshift morgues-a bowling alley and a vacant store-to transfer bodies to hospitals...
...grounds of the old Imperial Palace in Peking, rows of plebeian cabbages crowded up to the foundations. In the city not a taxicab could be found because the drivers were out collecting manure. Canton schoolchildren scurried out of class to plant vegetable gardens in vacant lots. To a foreign newsman, Premier Chou En-lai moaned that China this year had been visited by the worst combination of natural disasters in the century. No fewer than 133 million acres (one-half of the arable land) had been blistered by drought, tattered by storms or chomped bare by grasshoppers...
Stealthily, and above all "scientifically," the gang prepares to take its objective, a neighborhood jewelry store. The plan involves a vacant apartment through which the store can be entered. Mamma mia! A few days before the robbery the gang discovers that the apartment is not vacant at all. Two nice old ladies live there-they just never open the shutters. Fortunately, the old ladies have a pretty young housemaid. The boxer makes a date with her. She falls madly in love-and impulsively announces that she has quit...