Word: woe
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...this point, the movie cries for woo and woe. Both are obligingly served forthwith. As a knowledge-spouting (her defense against wolves) TV career woman, Cyd Charisse pops up to convince Kelly that, for her sweet sake, he cannot let his fighter take a dive. Dailey also has a crisis: the star of his outrageously successful TV program, Midnight with Madeline (a part that features some fine burlesque by Dolores Gray), temperamentally revolts against her prospective guest of the evening, a Bronx crackpot whose claim to fame is his model of the Taj Mahal, constructed in 16 years with nothing...
...psychology of it-associating beer with sun and sky and clouds and birds instead of with human woe and degradation and tears-fits perfectly into the liquor sellers' scheme...
Oldtime Speedboat King Gar Wood, 73, was still having the sort of woe that most romantic gentlemen his age only remember. Five years ago he tangled in court with a resolute young thing who claimed that she was "more than a secretary" to Wood in his $100,000 Miami home. After he learned that she was mar ried and threw her out of the mansion, she cried that it was hers as a gift, along with $25,000 in bonds and cash. Wood kept the house; she kept the negotiables. Last week spry old Wood had employee trouble again, this...
...counted among church members in our country today, we are troubled. The average church member is not conspicuously different from the nonmember. The average church is so much conformed to the world that people are surprised if it sharply challenges the prevailing behavior of the community . . . 'Woe to them that are at ease in Zion...
...fifty mile radius of Grauman's Chinese is awfully lonely behind the facade of glamor and sophistication. Perhaps these doctrines are healthy sops for those who go whole days without being asked for an autograph, but they are rather boring, especially when thrown into an already crowded agenda of woe...