Word: whaled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...example, when Benedick says of Beatrice, "I do spy some marks of love in her," the remark takes on a fresh significance through having Beatrice at that moment bending over with her rump sticking out into the audience. Whatever Shakespeare would think of all this, everyone is having a whale of a good time, and takes neither the play nor his own role seriously...
Director and Co-Writer Leo McCarey told this tremulous tale once before in 1939 (Charles Boyer v. Irene Dunne). On this familiar old heart-wrenching ground, Cinemanipulator McCarey, whose heart is as big as a whale's, carefully swings the plot pendulum-like between gladness and sadness. Cary and Deborah agree to rid themselves of their previous encumbrances, make a date to meet again after six months devoted to finding themselves (she was once a singer; he painted). But on the day of their reunion, a screech of brakes is heard offscreen, and next thing Deborah is a cripple...
Finally, 400 miles south of Bermuda, Boston gave up, wearily turned about and headed for Swampscott. Then he sprawled for three days on his bunk, too sick to set a course. "I heard the awesome sound of whale spouts in the fog. I felt that I was going up and down into nothing...
Total Security. The mock-hero of Author Ernst Pawel's From the Dark Tower unintentionally reminds the reader that Jonahs as well as Ahabs go looking for their private whales. Abe Rogoff is a middle-aged Jonah just asking to be swallowed. For ten years he has been a snickering outsider ("to take business seriously is a kind of disease") camouflaged as a docile insider in the pseudo-Gothic spires of Manhattan's Tower Mutual Life Insurance Co. Abe's disease might be diagnosed as undulant barricade fever, the nostalgic complaint of an ex-free-lover...
...Paris judges will hand down their decision this week. His corpulent Majesty did not appear in court. Full-bodied Defendant Maxwell's out-of-court defense was basically zoological. "I've never been called a monkey," chattered she. "But I've often been called a young whale. Of course, I'm just as much a beast as Farouk is, but I'm naturally so, or at least I hope so!" Have her feelings mellowed toward Fatso? "Humph! This man Farouk is no good at all!" ∙∙∙ Oregon's Democratic Senator Richard Neuberger...