Word: americana
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...State Department officers, and by a platoon of U.S. and Soviet newsmen, Russia's First Deputy Premier Frol Kozlov last week sped by plane and car across the U.S. on the final half of his first look at the U.S. What he saw was a richer panorama of Americana than many a U.S. resident sees in a lifetime. In California there were elegant dinners, a ceremonial visit to a winery, and a tour of the University of California's Berkeley Radiation Laboratory. In Detroit (where Mayor Louis Miriani refused to meet him), he got the full treatment from...
Headquarters for most companies were in the Lanai suites of the Americana hotel. There the lordly jocks drifted from backslapper to backslapper, soaked up booze from novel dispensers-Panama Records had a machine with faucets for martinis and Manhattans. And everywhere a D.J. went, record company promoters kept telling him: "Without you we're dead...
Mark Twain Tonight! Hal Holbrook, 34, makes Samuel Clemens, 70, live again for two hours in a brilliant and delightful display of recaptured Americana...
...furious putt-putt-putt, Holbrook spaces the tagline of a tall story from an afterthought that howlingly tops it. His performance is as pungently authoritative as the smoke from Twain's omnipresent cigar-a cigar that Actor Holbrook flourishes like a wand over two hours of delightfully recaptured Americana...
...Americana, Hollywood style, but well worth seeing...