Word: wrongness
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Food, drink and ordinary medicines, explained the bishop, must not be denied such patients, but "to subject the very old to the acute discomfort of a serious operation or of feeding by intravenous drip would seem to be morally wrong. Such means should be used only where there is reasonable hope of recovery or where some benefit of happiness is conferred on the patient." Out and out euthanasia, said Bishop Mortimer, is no longer "a live issue" in Britain, but doctors are certainly justified in relieving their old patients' suffering, even if this should hasten death...
Essential to this kind of nonsense is the slender, suffering woman (Carolyn Jones) who stands between two strong but wrong-headed men, endures all of fate's buffets, and at the film's end is a nubile 60, no worse for wear except for a touch of zinc oxide at the temples. She is the beloved of Thor Storm (Robert Ryan), an honest Norwegian salmon fisherman, until ruthless Zeb Kennedy (Richard Burton), a drifting Irishman who is Ryan's best friend, purloins her affections. In Malemute anguish, Ryan harnesses his huskies and mushes off into the Arctic...
Relinquishing his omniscience for just a few seconds, Casey Stengel said: "God knows, I don't know what's wrong with Mickey Mantle...
...Yankees have no idea when he will suddenly begin striking out again. "I'm naturally disappointed in Mantle," says Yankee General Manager George Weiss. "He's always been hard to talk to, so it's very difficult to find out what's wrong with him. But I cling to the hope that he'll pull out of it, and I've turned down deals for him with that in mind. Mantles don't come along so often that you want to make a mistake of giving up on them too soon." Weiss...
Other Hollywood directors answer that description. What makes Billy Wilder stand out? Two things, says Writer Brackett: "His exuberant vulgarity and his magnificent awareness of the audience. When it comes to guessing audience reaction, Billy is almost never wrong...