Word: windedness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The Ceremony is a long-winded melodrama that can't decide which way to blow. Produced and directed by its star, Laurence Harvey, this film about a killer's escape from prison in Tangiers deplores the death penalty, sadistic bureaucrats, and nine out of ten cops. It adores...
Lyndon Johnson is the hardest-working presidential tale spinner since Abraham Lincoln. Some of his yarns are long and tangled and full of Johnson's long-winded Texas syntax. Some are funny, some are pithy, and as often as not they are used to draw an Aesopian moral or...
The chief criticism of Abundance for What? is its size. The thirty essays add up to 604 pages, making the book appear long-winded when it's only bulky. But Riesman's recent thoughts should be examined closely; he has a sense of where we are and where we are...
Proud Mother. Meanwhile in Mexico, the cast and crew of The Night of the Iguana had long since gone home, but Liz and Burton, who had no home to go to, were still there. Richard the Lionhearted, taking regular Harry Truman constitutionals, paced briskly along with members of the press...
Alabama's Representative Kenneth A. Roberts drew a quick laugh when he told the House: "There will, no doubt, be some who say that a Congressman couldn't possibly have emphysema since he's so long-winded anyway." Then he added: "Seriously, Mr. Speaker, I invite you...