Word: waits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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McCrary ran Goldfine through a voice test of a statement prepared for radio and television. Then reporters tried to ask questions. "Wait a minute," roared Lawyer Sam Sears, an unlit cigarette dangling as always from a corner of his mouth. "Don't talk. Not a word." Goldfine stood silent, looking embarrassed. A reporter got scolded by Sears for insisting on questions. Snapped the reporter: "I'll say what I damn please." Then Goldfine read his statement for the actual filming (Tex McCrary had neglected to remove an empty highball glass and a used Old-Fashioned from the table...
...midafternoon, Reuters agency announced that its Moscow correspondent had been cut off as he was telephoning his account of the rioting mobs before the West German embassy (see FOREIGN NEWS). Most Fleet Street editors sighed resignedly and sat back to wait until the Russian censor lifted the blackout. But in a cluttered, dingy office in the Manchester Guardian's London bureau, rumpled, high-domed Victor Zorza grabbed a street map of Moscow, picked out the police stations nearest the German embassy. Minutes later, a desk man in Moscow's police station 88 picked up his telephone, was astounded...
...mood of U.S. business last week was: "Wait for fall." Most businessmen felt that the slide was ended, but few looked for any immediate big pickup in the face of the usual summer shutdowns...
...Composer Carl Orff's second opera (1938) is a modern retread of the Grimm fairy tale about four villagers who steal the moon from neighbors, carry it to their graves, finally lose it to St. Peter, who hangs it in the sky to light "the men who still wait in the little garden of the earth." The fragmented, intermittently lyrical score contains snatches of gutbucket jazz and such unorthodox sonorities as a chorus singing through megaphones, a shrieking oscillator, an accompaniment of organ, harmonium, piano, celesta and wind machine. This occasionally blurred performance has its strongly moving moments...
Despite the good intentions of the Ministry of Trade, the exhibit seemed to make little impression on the Japanese conscience. Said one gentleman of Japan to his wife at the exhibit last week: "When you see some high-priced foreign product, do not buy it but wait; after a few months a good Japanese imitation is bound to be on sale cheap...