Word: zinged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Clap goes the thunder, zing says the lightning, down come the rains, out goes the dam, wham goes an earthquake. Temples crash. A wall of water whirls the hero away. Fissures swallow tons of peasants, and the earth munches on them the way a cow chews oats. Lana, meanwhile, is hammering picturesquely on death's door as she battles a tropical fever, and as soon as she can walk she staggers, understandably enough, toward the nearest exit. She is apt to find it crowded...
...week's TV dramas were thin, talky and without dramatic zing, but they at least had the merit of trying to get away from the usual empty-headed TV plots and make a few comments about life and the pursuit of happiness. The depressing fact was that when the comment was not confused, it was trite...
...Show (Columbia). "A good Hollywood musical," a director once remarked, "is like a fine glass. It only rings true when it's absolutely empty." By this standard, Three for the Show is a good musical-the best so far released in 1955. It has the inimitable zing of vacuity, and it has something more important: a fundamental lilt that travels from scene to scene and makes the picture musical even when the sound track is silent...
Enjoyed the story [July 26] of Willie Mays-light, sparkling, with just a dash of Durocher to make it zing home...
...final against Seton Hall, St. John's just ran out of zing. Dukes, galloping up & down the court, dropping in hooks with either hand, passing off to teammates on scoring plays and gathering rebounds off both backboards, put on a one-man show. He scored 21 points (high for the game), and won the tournament's most-valuable-player trophy, as Seton Hall won handily, 58-46. The big man on everybody's All-America team, Dukes reportedly has his choice of signing with the professional National Basketball Association for $10,000 or the famed Harlem Globetrotters...