Word: windedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tyrone Power plays Eddy with unflagging boyishness, and Kim Novak acts the doomed Marjorie Oelrichs with spectral intimations ("Hold me, Eddy; I'm afraid of the wind . . ."). This blowy motif runs throughout the film: death's advent is always heralded by wind-driven snow, rain or autumn leaves. A stately newcomer, Australia's Victoria Shaw, is introduced as Duchin's second wife, and a pair of clipped-accented moppets (Mickey Maga and Rex Thompson) perform as the Duchin child at different ages. Moviegoers may enjoy the rippling piano notes (actually played by Carmen Cavallaro) that made...
...watery soup. Some new prisoners bring with them a cache of cigars-and the idea of bribing the keeper for the animals' rations. Soon the prisoners are eating not only the lions' meat but, somewhat guiltily, the peaceable bears' bread. Local German police officers get wind of the deal, shoot...
...Germans to tend the graves of their fellow French in a bucolic cemetery on the outskirts of Brodno, Poland. Peter thinks of death as a quiet neighbor until the freight cars of ill-fated Jews rumble past and the calling and weeping of human voices is carried on the wind until it fades into the distance, "leaving behind it that same serene sky, that store of blue that bewildered birds and dying men can never exhaust...
...making sense out of the flood of information that streams from it. Eighty thousand separate measurements may be made in a single day. The figures are first put on magnetic tape, then worked over by an electronic computer that reduces them quickly to curves and tables. In old-style wind-tunnel setups, most of this job was done by hand and often took several weeks...
...break since President Eisenhower's heart attack last September. The drop was led by the blue chips, which had paced the rise; but almost every issue on the Big Board lost ground. By week's end stocks on the Dow-Jones industrial average lost 23.90 points, to wind up at 472.49, or 48.56 points below the alltime high set in April. The fall set the average back to where it was last November...