Word: winded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...queue reached down the shaded walk and across the grass, streaming out like a scarf in the wind. Children and adults, they had come from Harlem, Park Avenue and Greenwich Village to gather at Central Park's Delacorte Theater for the final scheduled performance in a ten-night summer dance festival. When the box office opened to pass out the 2,263 free tickets that filled every seat, the end of the long line was awash with customary disappointment. As had happened on every other night of the festival, there was one who was turned away for every...
Bergman hit Paris like a wild north wind. In 1957, when a cycle of his films was first shown at La Cinémathèque Française, the main film library in Paris, hundreds of cinémanes stood in line night after night for three nights to get seats. "We were absolutely overthrown," says Director Truffaut. "Here was a man who had done all we dreamed of doing. He had written films as a novelist writes books. Instead of a pen he had used a camera. He was an author of cinema...
...long. After this season of adjustment, batters should adapt to the new strike zone; and when its novelty wears off, pitchers will probably find it just as hard to hit as the old one. The ball could liven up, the nuclear test ban could clear the air, the wind might shift, and 1964 could be the year of the batter...
...time chauffeur to the man in the back seat listening to Mantovani on a built-in stereophonic tape recorder. The car stopped on the mountaintop, where a friend was waiting; the man got out, a trim 6 feet with heavy-lidded blue eyes and an actor's dash. The wind riffled his wavy, iron-grey hair as he gazed out over Irvine Ranch, the miles and miles of grazing land and citrus groves rolling down to the Pacific...
...first was to design a new studio for Paramount. In preparation for it, Pereira characteristically learned so much about the movies that he became Paramount's art director?and won a 1942 Oscar for his trick photography in Cecil B. De Mille's Reap the Wild Wind. Later, as a full-fledged producer, he made two successful films for R.K.O...