Word: whaled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fence rail and almost as long," is transmogrified into the Falstaffian figure of Orson Welles -but Welles, in the first role he has done for Hollywood since Moby Dick, demonstrates decisively that if in the meantime he has scarcely improved as an actor, he is in any case a whale of an entertainer, even when he overacts and over-accents his Deep South dialect...
...profile on a hillside, the prismed First Presbyterian Church of Stamford, Conn, rests like a huge, stranded whale, its ribs exposed in transparent, jewel-colored flesh. Dedicated last week, the $1.5 million, six-story-high structure seats 800 people in a Gothic-spirited interior with a steel-reinforced frame standing out as part of the decor. There are no buttress-type supports, and the sharp-sloping walls, of interlaced, precast concrete panels, are embedded at midsection and tail with 20,000 inch-thick, stained-glass chunks. It is the first church designed by Skyscraper Architect Wallace K. Harrison (U.N. Building...
...coast of Uruguay, and attacked. They had their nerve. The German was one of the most formidable ships afloat-a fact soon demonstrated. In little more than an hour the Exeter was wallowing out of action. But the other two cruisers, harrying the enemy like sharks at a whale, managed to hit where it hurt. The German commander (Peter Finch) withdrew into the River Plate, and docked at Montevideo. Prodded by the Allies, neutral Uruguay allowed the Graf Spee less than four days for repairs, and meanwhile the British spread rumors of a large (and largely nonexistent) fleet that...
...bellowed "Bravo!" for your Dec. 23 roundup story on music. I'm glad you stressed the country's community orchestras; they are doing a whale of a job. More than 2,250,000 people have attended the Los Angeles Bureau of Music's late spring, summer and early fall band concerts. The community-sing attendance is well over the million mark, despite the once-crippling inroads of television. We sponsor a citywide "Artists of the Future" youth voice contest and an avocational civic "pops" orchestra. Dig under the films, TV, radio and records, and the blandishments...
...whale (2 hr. 41 min.) of a story, and in the telling of it, British Director David Lean (Brief Encounter, Great Expectations) does a whale of a job. He shows a dazzlingly musical sense and control of the many and involving rhythms of a vast composition. He shows a rare sense of humor and a feeling for the poetry of situation; and he shows the even rarer ability to express these things, not in lines but in lives. Most important of all, he understands the real nature of the story he is telling. The film cries from the depths...