Word: casting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...merely titillating, but very funny. Jack Lemmon's portrayal of the hungry little boy turned loose in a lollipop factory with his hands tied behind his back (he's got to keep pretending he's a girl) is one of his most delightful movie performances. Marilyn Monroe is perfectly cast, and she is great. And she sings, too. Tony Curtis makes one of his rare appearances as something other than a stud, and though he lacks Lemmon's and Monroe's sense of timing and their warmth, his performance has charm, especially when he plays the musician posing...
...pundits to succeed him was popular Secretary of State Jim Hare, who had led the Democratic ticket in 1958. But Hare was known as an independent-thinking cuss. The unions, in a spectacular exercise of political muscle, swung behind Swainson. On primary day, 70,000 Wayne County Democrats cast "bullet" votes for Swainson; i.e., they did not even bother to vote for the other 16 contested offices on the ballot. Swainson's statewide margin of victory: just under...
...called names like an angry child. The ten-nation disarmament committee, he said, was a stable with a stench that "an honest man could not breathe"; the Security Council was "a spittoon, even worse than a spittoon-a cuspidor"; Nationalist China was "a corpse we have to cast right out of here, straight to hell." From places and things he descended to personalities: Syngman Rhee was "a throttler and choker of the Korean people," Philippine Delegate Lorenzo Sumulong "a jerk and a lackey," Dag Hammarskjold "a fool" and President Dwight Eisenhower "a liar." As for the United Nations itself...
BUSINESS IN SPACE will be encouraged by National Aeronautics and Space Administration, which will make rockets and launching sites available at cast to U.S. companies for sending up communications systems. Likely first taker: American
...their technique in somewhat elaborated form. Their scheduled piece, certainly the oddest they have yet attempted, was titled Concerto for Improvising Solo Instruments and Orchestra. Pianist Foss and his men-flute, cello, clarinet and percussion-were ranged downstage in front of the orchestra, and Conductor Eugene Ormandy only rarely cast a nervous backward glance at them...