Word: barriers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lackluster performance with his first bull of the afternoon, Spain's top matador, Luis Miguel Dominguín (TIME, Dec. 22), worked his second with contemptuous skill. Then, as Dominguín casually seated himself on the estribo (the wooden ridge running around the inside of the barrier wall), the bull caught the matador in the thigh, spun him to the ground...
Best actor: Britain's Ralph Richardson, for his aviation magnate in Breaking the Sound Barrier (TIME...
Breaking the Sound Barrier. A soaring British film picturing the stresses & strains, mechanical as well as human, of supersonic flight; with Ralph Richardson, Ann Todd (TIME...
Breaking the Sound Barrier does deal with a British aircraft company's attempts to design a plane faster than the speed of sound. More than this, though, it is concerned with the company owner's persistence in launching new attempts, even at the cost of human life...
...Ralph Richardson is cast as John Ridgeway, a manufacturer who was once a dare-devil aviator and who feels the same way about breaking the sound barrier as some men would about exploring virgin territory. Ridgeway must send more planes and aviators to attempt the seemingly impossible, even after his son-in-law crashes in the first test plane. Although he alienates his daughter and wonders himself whether or not his vision is an evil spirit, he continues. When one of his planes finally beats the barrier, Ridgeway feels no clation--only, perhaps, relief...