Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...demoralized by her well-educated but intensely demanding parents. She alternated between incoherent screaming and stunned silence, slept exactly two hours in her first eight days, required three people to undress her. The "continuous cuddle" given Jane by a nurse and doctor were unsuccessful-then Big Sister Maggie (mental age: five) took over. Jane went to bed with Maggie, curled up in her arms and finally fell asleep. Last week Jane's shrimpish little face, once twisted with rage, beamed mischievously as she and Maggie sat on the floor, playing a private game of their own. For the first...
...Lower school-leaving age to 15, so that hoodlums and reluctant learners can be sent to work...
...kept flying; the pilots also own stock in the line.) Pan American World Airways also faces union trouble. Its A.L.P.A. pilots want up to $45,000 a year jet pay, have already forced a slowdown in jet schedules to Europe because they refuse to fly without a jet-age contract. To fill in. Pan Am has drafted 19 pilot-executives, who are not active members of A.L.P.A. But the executives are fast approaching their flying-time limits of 255 hours a quarter, and further schedule cuts may soon be necessary. The pilots' pay is already well above that...
Fast editing is about the most notable element in the second-part of the Brattle's double bill. Unfortunately the cutting is done by somebody who had a lot of good ideas, but little taste. But what makes The Age of Infidelity a total dud is that the plot is as slow as the scene-switching is fast...
...joint job about some kind of moral dilemma, involving the death of a bicycle rider. The hero and heroine, obviously big stars in their country from the footage wasted on their faces, are man and mistress. There's a lot of claptrap about living in an age with too many symbols, returning to the old integrity of student days, etc. Of course at the end there comes the uncomfortably awaited Spanish Irony--the heroine is run off the road by the eternal bicycle rider. If you want to go to the seven thirty show, manage to arrive about a quarter...