Word: versions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Because Williams puts mature words in the mouths of babes however, this interpretation seems incongruous. In the Workshop's version, Willie could well be another Becky Thatcher, except that she is given to mild oaths and strange aspirations. And Tom, her companion, looks down at his shoes during painful moments with all the finesse of This Property Is Condemned, however, is not due entirely to the director or to the two leads, Lucy Barry and Zandy Moore. The play was a poor choice to begin with...
Surely the newest version of this ancient creature will never be a plaything. It took 32 men to lift the pine, oak, and plywood frame from its saw-horses in the boathouse down to the float, and lots of ingenuity to float...
Relating his version of the experience, Felt said that the student and his date, when they arrived in the Field House, decided to apply antiseptic to the wound themselves, rather than to call a doctor from the field...
Woman's World (20th Century-Fox) is a petticoat version of Executive Suite, with the big job depending this time as much on the wife as on the man. The waspish corporation boss (Clifton Webb) summons his three top district managers; the best man & wife team will get the vacant general managership. The three nervous couples show up: an ulcer-ridden, self-made man (Fred MacMurray), at odds with his wife (Lauren Bacall); a tough, reticent Texan (Van Heflin) and his full-bodied, social-climbing mate (Arlene Dahl); a family man from Kansas City (Cornel Wilde...
Toynbee ridicules the smugness of the 18th and 19th centuries in terms of a Max Beerbohm cartoon (see cut). The Enlightened Dandy is so taken with his perfection that he can conceive of the future only as a gawkier version of himself; the Victorian Bourgeois is so optimistic that he sees the future as a figure fairly bursting with progress. But Toynbee believes that the 20th century's thin, frightened young man who sees only a question mark in the future ("Is he perhaps wondering whether he can even look forward to having any successor of any kind...