Word: woeful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From time to time, Mullin will lovingly revive the best-known figure in his sports wonderland: a mournful Dodger Bum, with his tattered coat, scraggly beard, patched pants and woeful cigar. When the Dodgers moved to Los Angeles, Mullin briefly spruced up his Bum with a sports shirt and dark glasses-but quickly went back to the stogie. After the Dodgers lost the 1953 World Series to the Yankees, Mullin had his Bum futilely chasing a light-footed brunette in a parody of Keats's Ode on a Grecian Urn ("Thou still unravish'd bride...
...their president's way of saluting them for making a particularly good sale, urging them on to greater success. Other firms are giving the kids whistles and the wives signs intended to get Pop out to sell, sell, sell. The story of the wonderful (and woeful) things that are happening to salesmen as businessmen attack the recession is told in BUSINESS, Spur for the Front Lines...
...Calm View. For all these woeful tidings, U.S. businessmen worried less than the politicians about the recession (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Businessmen did not brush the facts under the rug, but their anxieties were generally more for "the other guy" than for their own business. They saw no long slide but talked of the decline as the "saucer recession"-a curving dip to a level bottom and a climb on the other side. They viewed the now-dwindling inventory surpluses as a natural result of years of postwar expansion to keep pace with ever-growing markets-and considered this situation...
...College Station, Texas to find out what football might be like without everybody's All-American. Bear is chucking a contract that has seven $15,000 years to run, and he is hotfooting it for his alma mater, Alabama U. The once mighty Alabamans have been having woeful times on the football field. "Say you heard your mother call," explains Bear Bryant solemnly. "If you thought she wanted you to do the chores, you might not answer. But if you thought she needed you, you'd be in a hurry. I feel the same way about this...
Some of the woeful inadequacies of life when compared to fiction are made very funny, but the film is not the neat satirical gem that it could be, and for a sad reason. The two sequences of events, both acted out for use with mild ingenuity by the same cast in the same setting, are too similar. Although an amusing technical touch is added by filming the reality in black and white and the fiction in technicolor, the scriptwriters' reality is often too close to the novelist's fiction, and both are often obvious...