Word: except
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Paul Butler's Beverly-Hilton dinner, Sahl pictured a line-up of war heroes getting their medals from President Truman in 1945. Harry, by Sahl's account, made the usual claim that he would rather have that medal than be President, and "all the guys agreed, except this thin lieutenant from Massachusetts." Casting a miscellaneous eye, Sahl thought it not unlikely that, after the playing of The Star-Spangled Banner, Lenny Bernstein would come on-camera to explain it. Introducing "Mom" Walker, chief telephone operator at convention headquarters, Sahl said: "They have good exchanges for a convention-like...
...certain moments it can be clearly seen-- yet it does not tend to turn the characters into metaphors for a certain segment of the theme. The characters, a raft of them, emerge fresh and unique. There is a happy grandfather, a sort of Nordic Big Daddy without any problems except his wife's insistence upon long underwear; a mad and pudgy sculptor whose libido provides the stuff for the funniest parts of the film; the wife herself, whose sham strength acts as a foil for her husband's sham weakness...
...lack the smoothness which could otherwise have been expected. But even assuming that the performance is not now as deathly tedious as it was on Tuesday night, it is hard to believe that it could have improved to a point that would justify inviting anyone to see it except the mothers of the performers...
...Queens, who was "discovered" last year by a talent agent who heard him singing in the lobby of Manhattan's Brill Building, headquarters of Tin Pan Alley. Itsy Bitsy has already sold 600,000 copies, is all over the jukeboxes, TV and radio, in fact all over everything except the poor little unnamed girl in the song...
...heart of the sensor is a tiny ceramic disk that vibrates 80,000 times per second, except when damped by a liquid. As the liquids from the two tanks fall below the level of the sensors, they begin to vibrate, sending a signal to a computer". Acoustica's contract should be worth $6,000,000 to $10 million during the current year and may reach $20 million over the next three years...