Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...outcompete anyone in Europe, were enthusiastic at the opportunity to win an even bigger share of Western European markets, but unenthusiastic at the prospect of being obliged to give French-style benefits-including three-week vacations-to their hitherto unpampered employees. The labor benefits, in turn, have great appeal to German unions, thereby vitiating German Socialism's traditional opposition to European integration schemes...
...voters debated which was the better way to manifest their disgust with Communism: to boycott the elections, or to cross off all the Communist names at the top of the ballots. Their defiance was subtly encouraged by the Stalinist Communist leaders whom Gomulka supplanted, who did not hesitate to appeal to Poland's latent anti-Semitism and describe the Gomulka faction as a "bunch of Jews." From their viewpoint, an anti-Communist demonstration at the polls would constitute a massive nonconfidence vote in Gomulka, and justify a Stalinist revival in which they would return to power, if necessary with...
...glass-of-water theory is vanquished by Hollywood's slipper-of-champagne theory, and the world is saved for black lace undies. This version, however, might more accurately have been titled Ninotmuchka. Katharine Hepburn, doing her smooth-cheeked, trim-legged best to look like a Soviet with sex appeal, plays a MIG-wig in the Red air force who flies to the West in protest over a missed promotion. Bob Hope, a major in the U.S. Air Force, is assigned the "sensitive" task of inducing her to "embrace democracy." After that, the script-mostly by Ben Hecht, though...
...Here was someone who believed with great sincerity that the social order was immutably secure; that the meaning of wealth . . . was that it should be translated into an environment of beauty and dignity, as its proper appanages; and that once the eye was trained to the pursuit, the appeal of great craftsmanship was irresistible, and its ownership a justification of one's position." Mrs. William Randolph Hearst Sr., a close personal friend of Mrs. Rovensky, put it more simply: "It was one of the most beautiful houses in New York with the most exquisite things...
Flix Tix Stash Cash Judging by box-office appeal, Variety last week picked Hollywood's most successful movies since the industry first flickered into life. The top ten* films and their take (in millions) to date in the U.S. and Canada...