Word: wee
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
WHRB, despite its professional broadcasting and programming standards, does nevertheless have a responsibility to the Harvard community, and as long as hillbilly music remains popular here, it should be played. The titilating voices of Earl Scruggs and Wee Willy Tyler must not forever be kept silent...
Abilene's youngsters, like others all over Texas, are graduates of well-organized "Pee Wee" (fifth and sixth grade) football leagues. Having already learned to take their lumps, they get from Chuck a generous dollop of the kind of coaching they will get even more intensively after they earn college athletic scholarships. Moser's assistant coaches, managers and quarterbacks get a mimeographed sheet of instructions before each practice session. There are movies of every game to be studied. To soothe the pains of workouts there are whirlpool baths and other expensive paraphernalia in the Abilene field house...
...King." (Explains Paar: "Overstatement is very funny.") With an Ernie Kovackian flair for electronic jabberwocky and oddball gimmicks, he throws in some wild Italian movies or stages a midget-car race on the studio floor. For the most part, though, Paar just talks with his guests, bringing to the wee hours a sometimes mordant humor and off-color japery that smack of the old radio days when Bob Hope used to get cut off the air, e.g., "I went to the ballet last night. After all, we can't all be Marlboro...
Five tuxedoed Lowell House tutors, armed with the proper optical equipment and spirits, met on Weeks Bridge at the wee hours of the morning yesterday to toast the coming of Sputnik...
Director Alexander Mackendrick, who also had a hand in writing the script, is a master of nuances with the camera and in picking English types with an air of reality-harried bureaucrats, laboratory assistants who help themselves to a wee drop from a retort now and then, and other pungent touches. Particularly amusing is the chemical apparatus that serves as a running gag throughout the film. Also sprightly is Benjamin Frenkel's music...