Word: 1950s
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This film could easily have been released during the 1950s, when sanitary mega-historical Hollywood epics were the norm. In fact, Far and Away features an elaborate recreation of the Oklahoma land rush, when settlers launched a mad, ruthless wagon and horse race across the western prairie to claim free plots of land offered by the U.S. government...
...present situation is at least as good--and almost certainly much better--than at any time in our past, including the 1950s or the 1960s or the 1970s," he said...
...over as long as the last slain soldier remains unburied." With these words Russian President Boris Yeltsin made an effort last week to help mend the scars of the cold war. In a letter to the Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs, Yeltsin confirmed that in the 1950s the Soviet Union shot down nine U.S. aircraft -- incidents never made public by the Pentagon -- and held 12 surviving Americans in prison or psychiatric clinics. He also reported that the Soviets held 716 American servicemen for varying periods during World War II and interrogated 59 American pows from the Korean...
Senator John Kerry congratulated Yeltsin for "admitting the sins of the past." But Yeltsin's letter raised more questions than it answered. Were all 716 World War II pows released? And what happened to those 12 survivors captured in the 1950s? Yeltsin promised more details once the Russian investigation was complete...
With a well-chosen mix of film clips and interviews, the program takes us back to the ancient 1950s, when virtually the only blacks on TV were comic stereotypes: Amos 'n' Andy, Beulah and the occasional bumbling menial. "There's no room for prejudice in our profession," Milton Berle tells Danny Thomas in a snippet from Berle's old Texaco Star Theater. But of the black stars of the '50s who had their own variety shows, only Nat King Cole lasted a full season, and he was canceled thereafter when he could not find sponsors...