Word: leanness
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...great U.S. playwright, wife of a great U.S. movie comedian, Oona O'Neill Chaplin, 35, told Interviewer Frederick Sands about the 17 years that she has spent with Charlie, 71, as his fourth wife and mother of his seven chil dren. In the American Weekly, Oona, still lean, open-faced, and now becoming grey-streaked, a partner in Chaplin's Swiss exile since 1952, makes it clear that Charlie has never seemed like a father...
After two punishingly lean years, Wilder at last got a screenwriting job at Paramount. And at the whim of an executive producer, he was teamed with Writer Charles Brackett, onetime drama critic for The New Yorker. Suave Charlie Brackett and rough Billy Wilder clicked right away. Wilder spewed Niagaras of notions, and in this prodigious stream of consciousness, Brackett fished for usable ideas. Together they wrote 14 films without a single flop, and some of their movies were among the biggest hits (Ninotchka, The Lost Weekend, Sunset Boulevard) of the era. But in 1950 Brackett and Wilder broke up. Says...
...four candidates who correctly sensed the sharply heightened appeal of learning, land, and a thicker slice of the national economy in an agricultural nation where nearly half of the people are illiterate and the annual per capita income is $172. The Sorbonne-educated professor of government, ascetically lean and given to wearing natty waistcoats, called to him "all the multi tudes who dream of a new life with jus tice and real democratic equality, without privileged parties." He recalled the roads and schools that he lavished on the coun try during his previous three presidential terms...
Irresistible Offer. Bonfils and Tammen had scattered their estates among a handful of bank-administered trusts and Bonfils' two daughters, Helen and May. Lacking effective leadership, the Post, which had netted more than $1,000,000 a year under Tammen and Bonfils, fell on lean times; of late it has been paying stockholders-Bonfils' daughters and the bank trusts-less than a 3% return. This combination-low yield, diversified ownership -is just the situation that Newhouse likes to exploit. He has had an eye on the Post for five years, but paid his first visit to Denver only...
Poppity-Pop. A lean and toothless old man with a long nose that had been broken twice by fists and at least once by a horse's hoof. Cowboy Kelly hated the 20th century. He went to his last movie in 1929. He would fall dumb when confronted with a telephone, flatly refused to ride in airplanes, insisted that all substitutes for the horse were a danger to life and limb ("They will kill you off! They go like hell, poppity-pop and hellity-scoop"). Like Pieter Brueghel the Elder, whom he admired so much, he filled his canvases...