Word: sharp
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...show, the President invited 28 of his old comrades of World War II and other friends to a stag banquet at the U.S. embassy residence in London. There was Sir Winston Churchill, still game, who had flown up from the Riviera. There were Field Marshals Montgomery and Alanbrooke, sharp critics of Ike's leadership, whom the President greeted no less warmly. In a wondrous who-sits-where session for the photographers, the President, much as he did in the old days, finally got the British generals where he wanted them (see cut). And at dinner, amid old reminiscences...
...only the thick, juicy spending slabs but the little, thin million-dollar slices can unbalance the delicate 1960 budget, warned the White House's sharp-eyed budget inspectors last week. Deputy Budget Director Elmer B. Staats told the Senate Post Office and Civil Service Committee that the bureau's January forecast of $77 billion spending had already been raised "significantly" (to about $79 billion, by relatively trivial millions). Result: the paper-thin $70 million surplus appears to be wiped out completely...
...good thing, physicians from a variety of specialties agreed last week at a Sports Medicine Congress held in Chicago in connection with the Third Pan-American Games. But how much exercise is best? What kind? At what time of life? To these key questions there were no sharp answers, because medical science knows surprisingly little about the specific effects of different types of exercise on the human heart. As the experts puffed toward the finish line, they reached a consensus on some preliminary findings. ¶Athlete's heart" is an unfortunate term that should be discarded, because it indicates...
LUXURY STORE FIGHT for Harrods of London, Britain's most elegant department store, was won by thistle-sharp Scots Millionaire Hugh Fraser, after battle with rival Debenhams chain. Fraser, who heads $78 million no-frill, working-class House of Fraser chain, promises to maintain Harrods' morning-coat reputation...
...illustrating this text, Bergman wobbles between drama and melodrama, alternates genuine horrors with sham tricks, comic sex with serious sex, and poetry with lampoon. Result is that The Magician is perhaps his least successful film so far. But for every murky symbol, there is a sharp physical image: footsteps become important, a thunderclap almost too real, and shafts of light through the mist startlingly beautiful. With the help of this brilliant graphic technique, a haunting guitar score, and the talented stock company of players who have turned up in all recent Bergman films. The Magician manages to fascinate...