Word: flatness
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...fifth round, Johansson's face was tight with apprehension. Slowly, his guard came down to protect a reddening body. As planned, Johansson was retreating from an attack when Patterson caught him with a rising left hook that landed flush on the side of the jaw. Johansson rolled flat on his back, then got to his knees while Patterson leaned on the ropes and flashed one of the rare, broad smiles of his career. Wobbling up at the count of nine, Johansson was ready for the kill. With a pro's cold fury, Patterson hounded him about the ring...
...wildly asymmetrical melodies, lurching and truncated rhythms, tone colors as varied and highly personal as the sound of a human voice. The Coleman Quartet plays mostly Ornette's own compositions-pieces with odd private titles such as Invisible, so named because the song's key (D-flat) is hard to detect, and Congeniality, suggested by the personality of a wandering preacher he once knew...
There are occasional flat passages in the book, and some embarrassing ones, as when Frankfurter recalls being introduced to Prince Feisal of Iraq ("Here was little me meeting this Arab prince!"). But it is suffused with his love for the law, that towering edifice which is "all we have standing between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feeling." Frankfurter lays down the axiom that "the worst public servants are narrow-minded lawyers, and the best are broad-minded lawyers." He neglects to say who should make the determination. But readers may feel that...
Actors get as little as 12% of the gross, but the total may rise to 30% of a successful show if an important star has a percentage deal. One out of every ten actors on Broadway is a "minimum player," earning the flat Equity minimum of $103.50 a week. Extras, who do not count as minimum players, earn even less-$52 a week. Rising young star Anne Bancroft earns as much as $2,000 a week. Veteran Melvyn (The Best Man) Douglas, who works for 10% of the gross, is guaranteed $2,500 a week...
...until the next 500. Said the ex-Bridesmaid of the Brickyard: "Ward's car seemed to have more steam than mine, but I just kept pushing him close. I don't believe in hard braking when you're trying to catch someone. I ran flat...