Word: aptly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...transcendently right and revealing, rather too continuously resembles a Japanese Jiggs who has just been beaned by the eternal rolling pin and is about to say tweet-tweet. But the minor actors are often superb. The camera work, the cutting, the use of flashback and sound track are spectacularly apt and original. And the great strength of the picture is the total seriousness and importance of what Kurosawa has to say: to live is to love; the rest is cancer...
There was no suspicion that Ellen Lewis had tried to conceal her pregnancy, as some unmarried women (and some hysterical wives) are apt to do. Hers was one of the rare cases of genuinely unsuspected pregnancy...
...substances that produce flavor are made by enzymes (organic catalysts) out of tasteless "flavor precursors." When food is preserved by canning, freezing or dehydration, the flavor, along with the enzymes, is apt to be destroyed. The precursors survive. But without the proper enzymes, they do not produce flavor...
...fine rebounder and good playmaker, Schayes leads the league in foul shooting, is respected by the pros as one of the game's greats (ten years an all-star). But fans are apt to be more impressed by the flashy feats of St. Louis' Bob Pettit or Minneapolis' Elgin Baylor. Says Syracuse's Schayes wistfully: "My ambition has always been to some day walk down the street and for someone to say, 'There goes the greatest basketball player there is.' I may play until that happens...
...before the Comet crashes, he visualized aircraft exploding from metal fatigue (No Highway). In an age of equivocal values, Shute took an authoritative, old-fashioned moral stance. His men were manly. His women were womanly and virtuous. Sex was linked to marriage; evil, when it existed at all, was apt to be just inefficiency...