Word: weirdly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...believe all this, you will undoubtedly tingle with suspense every minute that The Stranger is on the screen. If not, you'll probably still enjoy laughing at the incredibly cold-blooded antics of Orson Welles and Edward G. Robinson, not to mention all the weird townspeople who are around to watch...
Chicago seems headed for a weird and ferocious three-way fight for mayor. The contenders: two-term Mayor Martin Kennelly, who has been dumped by the city's Democratic machine; County Clerk Richard J. Daley, who appointed the committee that picked him and dumped Kennelly (and then commented, "I never dreamed it could happen to me"); and Robert E. Merriam, who won election in 1947 to the city council as a Democrat, but turned Republican to run for mayor...
...shows, may have lacked the physical bulk and dominance that seem required for Macbeth. But as always, he spoke with clarity and feeling. So did Judith Anderson, who was superb in the sleepwalking scene. The rest of the cast did not always do so well: the three weird sisters, along with many of the supporting players, often seemed as drowned in gibberish as in mist. For next season, Evans and Schaefer are thinking of deserting Shakespeare for Shaw: Evans has already taken TV options on The Devil's Disciple and Man and Superman...
Artzybasheff, who was born in Kharkov (1899), the son of a well-to-do Russian author, began to doodle with grotesque and weird creatures as a schoolboy. He had. just entered law school-to round out his education-when the Communist revolution caught up with him. Escaping to a Black Sea port, he signed on a ship that he thought was bound for Ceylon, but ended up in New York with 14? worth of Turkish money in his pocket, spent his 20th birthday on Ellis Island...
...Hitler's production genius, said: "If we didn't have Von Neurath, we would all go crazy." They were an ill-assorted lot: fat, bald, obscene Walter Funk (No. 6); rich, young, suicidal Baldur von Schirach (No. 1); dangerous, unrepentant ex-Admiral Karl Doenitz (No. 2); weird, half-sane Rudolf Hess (No. 7): arthritic, pious ex-Admiral Erich Raeder (No. 4). Von Neurath would recall for them the glittering days when he was his country's envoy to the Kings of Italy and Great Britain. He had been a childhood friend of Britain's Queen Mary...