Word: briefs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...murderer is chased from the tunel of love, through the fun house and the house of mirrors, through the crowd and to the ferris wheel, one thinks for just a brief moment that perhaps he has seen it all before and wonders why he ever bothered. By this time, however, the villain is climbing the ferris wheel, sirens are sounding, women are screaming, and at such a moment, who can doubt...
Menzel presented a brief talk about the eclipse until the plane broke though into sunlight. When the moon started the fifty-six-second period of totality, the airliner became a scene of controlled confusion. Nearly everyone on the plane hurriedly snapped pictures, since the next eclipse in this area will not come for 300 years...
Supreme Court Justice John V. Spaulding gave the counsel for the Arboretum ten days to file a brief and continued the case until that time...
After several brief, effective expository scenes, Gibson's play traces Annie's struggles with her pupil up to the crucial point where young Helen, standing at a pump outside the Kellers' Alabama homestead, realizes that the W-A-T-E-R which Annie is spelling out in her hand means something and that that something is the water flowing over her arms. With this discovery of language, Annie's job has both ended and just begun; from this first world "water" Miss Keller built and understood a world...
...hating Jimmy, crumples into his arms with incredible rapidity when Alison leaves him, and considerately vacates his bed when Alison comes home, Claire Bloom seems understandably tentative in a role that Mr. Osborne never finished conceiving. Garry Raymond is quietly admirable as Cliff, and Dame Edith Evans, in a brief appearance, makes an old Cockney woman thoroughly Dickensian and lovable, striking almost too simple and cheerful a note in a perplexed and perplexing film...