Having largely flamed out in fiction after the success of "The Naked and the Dead," and lucky to have escaped a prison sentence for stabbing his second wife, he was still in the early, shaky stages of a comeback second only in that era to Frank Sinatra's.
They really seemed to stick in place well, and actually worked in person better than the shaky on stage demo would've led me to believe.
This week, we caught up with DFJ Growth cofounder Randy Glein to understand how closely related or not the two remain, how the firm is feeling about the shaky late-stage market, and whether his team of five general partners is ready to raise their own, third, fund from investors.
McCarthy gets off to a shaky start with a stage-setting reference to Central Park as the "city's largest park" (Pelham Bay Park is three times the size), then struggles to find a story line in all the fascinating facts, a great many of which have ended up in a note at the back of the book.
At "We Are Plastic Ono Band," mixing concert and tribute at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on Tuesday night, her voice could be shaky and her stage patter giggly and unplanned.
A proud, new African country is about to be born, but it will step onto the world stage with shaky legs.
A jury ruled on Friday in favor of shareholders who said the French media group Vivendi lied to the public about its shaky finances, setting the stage for a possible distribution of billions of dollars in damages to investors.
Cinema attendances nosedived with TV's ascendancy in the late 1940s, and only staged a shaky recovery in the 1990s.
As live entertainment, "Nashville Star" had a shaky start in its season premiere when one of the contestants, Jenny Farrell, ran off the stage to vomit; remarkably, she was not voted off that week.
