Word: windedness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The Bartok was something of a disappointment, not, it should be stressed, because of the performers, but rather because of a lack of direction in the piece itself. Each of the first four movements wanders somewhat aimlessly before it begins to build toward a climax. But when the tension is...
To anyone who can still remember the late Radio Comedian Fred Allen's dry wit, these letters will seem a disservice to Allen's ghost. To anyone who cannot, sorting through this epistolary mountain for the occasional glint of gold will seem hardly worth the effort. The nuggets...
Major Dundee is Charlton Heston, and the writers of this long-winded, quasi-Biblical western apparently had fun filling their script with reminders that the star has previously played such roles as Ben-Hur, Moses and John the Baptist. With Old Testament wrath, he pursues Chief Sierra Charriba through the...
Dwight Eisenhower was "not fitted for the job" of President, Winston Churchill was "long-winded," Joseph Stalin an "old bastard," and Douglas MacArthur "so important in his own mind he thought he was greater than the President of the United States." This is a TV commentator? Sure is. Harry Truman...
In emphysema, not only do many of the individual alveoli lose their elasticity, so that they do not exchange enough carbon dioxide and oxygen, but much of the lung wall itself loses its stretch. The lungs tend to remain inflated. What the patient is aware of, said Dr. Ebert, is...