Word: thunderstruck
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Leyton's thunderstruck discovery that Mom is a woman capable of physical desire looks a bit forced since Actress Jones plays her from the start as a very turned-on lady. Jennifer, now 47, even goes at her gardening with a provocative air, tugging at her blouse front while she breathlessly inquires of her son's pal: "Ever been to Corsica? The sun beats on you like a hammer . . . delicious, frightening." Her ultimate surrender proceeds, posture by posture, through moments of squeamish abandon on a dance floor to a New Year's eve when she sweeps downstairs...
...verdict: "We, the jury, find the defendant guilty of murder with malice and assess the penalty at death." Ruby stared at the jury, bit his lip, then scuttled impassively out of the room behind a phalanx of sheriff's officers. But his attorney, barrel-chested Melvin Belli, was thunderstruck. He leaped to his feet, shouting, "Don't worry, Jack! We'll appeal this and take it out of Dallas...
...plan to end "the excesses, dry the tears, heal the wounds." In return, "we have promised special pledges in order to obtain from God the boon that none of the members of the [Trujillo] family shall ever experience the sufferings that today afflict the hearts of so many." Thunderstruck by open Catholic opposition, churchgoers left early Masses, talked nervously in church courtyards, returned to hear the letter read again at the next Mass. Collection plates overflowed with cash and donations of jewelry...
...musical, Fiorello (TIME, Dec. 7), Actor Tom Bosley appears before Broadway audiences for the first time and gives them what they thought they had seen for the last time: the fire, drive and percussion of New York's Little Flower. "I was thunderstruck by the similarity," said Morris. Bosley reads the funnies with a perfect croak, pushes back his coat to place his hands, fingers down, on his hips while speaking, sings in a voice like the one that must have sounded in the shower at Gracie Mansion. He makes the most of his pudgy hands and Little Flower...
...relentless but gripping tragedy of man's inhumanity to man. The scene is New Hope Valley, Tenn.; the time, today. An evangelist arrives in town with the intention of saving a passel of souls. Town elders go into the woods to find a suitable baptismal stream, are suddenly thunderstruck to see Susannah bathing in the altogether. This vision is enough to convince them that the girl is possessed of the devil, and that it is everybody's duty to cleanse...