Word: barrens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Director King Vido made some ghastly mistakes in planning details. While Richard Todd is holing up in some barren valley, he seems to be well supplied with hair tonic. Despite many days in the wilds, his pate is slick and well parted, his shirt perfectly tailored and his trousers finely creased. The ultimate example of Vido's misdirection is the marriage scene, in which the Justice of the Peace is equipped with a neon heart and arrow sign, twittering birds, and a record of Massenet's sickly-sweet "Meditation" from "Thais...
Cautious Combat. Typical of the sporadic fighting was the action on Hill 166, about four miles south of Hoengsong. A characterless little hump extending from the Wonju-Hoengsong road into barren stony mountains whose crevices gleam with snow, Hill 166 is distinguished only by a thin ruff of slender trees along the western slope, a high-tension wire standard on its crest, and a cluster of high Korean grave mounds on its southern slope...
Muccini likes contrasts of light & dark better than color contrasts. He uses mostly whites, greys, dusty blues and blacks, thickly applied and precisely outlined. His draftsmanship and his sense of placing are extraordinary; by projecting a few sharply focused figures against a barren background he gives both full play. Part of his power stems from the directness of Muccini's approach to art. He had no early contact with art schools and theories, learned his craft by the simple process of painting layers of pictures on both sides of what little canvas he could afford...
...month Agriculture became the target of a bill in Congress to pay Mink Rancher Henry J. Krueger of Elgin, Ill. $55,591. Krueger's lawyers charged that, following official instructions, he fed stilbestrolized chicken heads to his mink. As a result, many young female mink had been made barren. They had to be prematurely "pelted," i.e., become mink coats before becoming mothers. So did the mink of almost 30 other ranchers...
...they were a little annoyed when, before sunrise next day, a brighter, louder explosion thundered out of the barren plateau, waking sleepers with a start, and setting the burglar alarms ringing in North Las Vegas. "What are they trying to do-make us click like Geiger counters?" grumbled a housewife...