Word: worsteds
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Bear," who worked over Hayes and the rest of the crew. "One day they treat you nice, and they are your big brothers," Hayes explained. "The next day, for no reason, it would be the opposite. Everyone was kept in terror, waiting to be beat. That was the worst part-there was nothing you could do but sit there and wait...
...Manhattan's Russian Tea Room, they sat at separate tables. "We'd talked enough at rehearsal-politics, human nature, the whole world situation," says Alexander Schneider. "It was important to separate as much as we could, so that we kept entirely separate personalities. Homogeneity is the worst thing in music...
Equally clumsy is the film's direction, the work of Christian Marquand. Every sequence is overlong and overdone. The editing is helter-skelter, with some scenes totally incomprehensible. The color is shoddy and dank; the musical score is too loud and irrelevant. Worst of all, it is highly questionable that Marquand even bothered to direct any of his cast...
...judo instructor or a kiddies television show emcee. As this emcee, called Buttons and with a ludicrous costume to match the name, Buckman gets to lead the audience in a song that would make even Art Linkletter sneer. The lyrics are a sharp play on the worst genre of pop music ("I like to ride on a reindeer/Wouldn't you like to, too?/Wouldn't you like to hold the rein, dear, on my reindeer, dear?/It never rains, it only snows with you."), and Buckman delivers them with such soupy sincerity that you have to restrain yourself from joining...
...WORST OF ALL, the 82 men had become the objects and display models of a new kind of violence. Even in its national spasms of 1968, America at least seemed ashamed by its own violence and killing; it wanted to cure its violence at home and seemed more and more to regret the violence it inflicted overseas. And even though American violence continued, even though it was in many ways more brutal than the tortures the Pueblo crewmen endured, it lacked the chilling pride of the Korean punishment...