Word: midways
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...screen sustains this mood with a generalized shot of the opposed camps, their fires like humiliated starlight. There are no creeping murmurs, neighing steeds, crowing cocks, clanking armorers. Instead, William Walton's score, one of the few outstanding scores in movie history, furnishes subdued, musical metaphors. Midway through the Chorus, the film boldly breaks off to interpolate, to better effect, a scene in the French camp which in Shakespeare's version precedes...
...Midway in the proceedings the President left his seat in the grand ballroom, led a noisy, serpentine parade through the outer rooms where the party's lesser fry were seated. Then, after the whole crowd had jostled into the ballroom, he listened as speakers flayed the Republicans, praised Jefferson, Jackson, Wilson, F.D.R., the common man and themselves...
...game was touch and go until the score stood at 18-all midway in the second quarter. Then the Buckeyes took over, surging ahead to a 26-20 half-time lead which they never lost...
...butter, a diamond wedding ring, jars of canned fruit, popcorn, etc.). At his last show-scheduled for the usual 30 minutes-the audience held Danny for 91, while he went through his whole repertory of pantomime, mimicry and musical burlesques. He called up kids from the audience. Once, midway through a song, he doubled up with a great belly laugh. "You won't believe this," he howled, "but a little girl in the third row is looking at me through binoculars." At the end of this zany, record performance, the audience sang Auld Lang Syne...
...current road company, starring Neil Hamilton as candidate Matthews, is being groomed for Chicago, and the Windy City, excepting residents Robert McCormick and Ed Kelly, will love it, though there is reason to believe that they may appreciate its marital irregularity (sex always does well on the Midway) more than its political liberalism...