Word: acted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Government of the U.S. can help to bring this about by providing an adequate and realistic new revenue act that would equalize plant and equipment replacement costs, finance normal or expanding needs of the steel industry, as well as curb inflationary tendencies, meet foreign competition, hold the price line and increase wages...
...TEAMSTER BOSS Dave Beck was indicted by federal grand jury with Roy Fruehauf, president of Fruehauf Trailer Co., and Burge Seymour, president of Associated Transport, Inc. Government charged that $200,000 loan from Fruehauf's and Seymour's companies violated Taft-Hartley Act. Maximum penalty: a year in jail and $10,000 fine...
Jazz Sermon. Somehow, the shock is not shocking. The evil act. which should dominate the book, is not made really believable. The last chapters of the novel have the faintly embarrassing tone of a sermon in jazz language attempted by an overearnest cleric. The tormented murderer asks: "Why is it that if we could all learn to play together the way we did-why is it we couldn't learn to live together?" The narrator's sanctimonious reply: "Woody, if we could-even between us-answer that simple question-seemingly simple-we could turn this into...
...best picture of the year." It is a tough, uncompromising, hard-hitting film about the French army during World War I. Several countries considered it too strong for their audiences and refused to allow it to be shown. In it, Kirk Douglas shows for once that he can act...
David Amram's incidental music is of uneven quality. Highly apt is the background for Romeo's Mantuan soliloquy: an unaccompanied English horn, suggested perhaps by the third act opening of Wagner's Tristan. At the opening performance the balance of the instruments in ensemble playing was awry, but this is easily remedied. George Balanchine's choreography is proper if not exceptional...