Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...friends, acquaintances and perfect strangers. When a checkroom girl is found strangled after an innocent visit to Bogart's apartment, the police suspect that she was the victim of one of his ugly moods. After an unconscionably long time, so does his girl friend, Gloria, who begins to wonder just when he will take a notion to bash her head in. Only a phone call from the police, who have caught up with the real murderer, keeps Bogart from strangling her out of pique...
...television. Los Angeles' TV station KTTV bought the studios for $2,250,000, planned to use them for producing TV film shorts for 25 stations as far away as Manhattan. For Hollywood it was only a minor setback. But it gave the nervous movie industry fresh cause to wonder, worry and scheme over the troubles still to fly from the Pandora's box in U.S. living rooms...
...which has just begun with "King Lear." On this new recording, William Devlin, who played Lear with such distinction here this winter, trumpets the major speeches of the old but unwise King. Members of the Brattle Company read around him to give an inkling of the plot. You may wonder who "Poor Tom" is, or how Gloucester lost his eyes, for such details are unexplained, but Devlin's Lear is all-important. The other characters only guide the course of his catastrophe...
...third main criticism attacks the proposal at its heart by questioning the need for a new Varsity Club. These critics wonder whether a new Clubhouse would be used enough more than the present one to warrant its construction. They feel the Houses, in which everyone cats, sleeps, and makes friends, fulfill the social function which the Varsity Club did in pre-Houses days of impersonal Yard dorm, and which Mr. Burr thought it might still...
...lack of fresh air and exercise. During class they strained and fidgeted, just waiting for the time to go home to the television set again. "You know what they talk about?" she demanded. "Hopalong Cassidy.* Over & over. Just cowboys and Indians and Hopalong Cassidy . . . It's no wonder they are bored by school. How can I compete with Hopalong Cassidy...