Word: barroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gunfighter (20th Century-Fox) is a maverick western: it spends most of its time indoors. Its hero (Gregory Peck) is a celebrated desperado who wants to go straight. With a limited amount of gunfire and hard riding, the movie makes every shot count, manages to fill a barroom interior with more suspense than most horse operas get from all outdoors...
Like the luscious nude over the barroom mirror, or Mother Goose in the nursery, the bright prints of pink-coated foxhunters have become the standard pictures for thousands of U.S. libraries, dens and rumpus rooms. Richard Gump, the iconoclastic, 44-year-old president of Gump's famed art store in San Francisco, thinks that's a shame. "Why not baseball or football pictures?" he asks. "Those frozen hunting prints have become purely functional, like door knobs. Pictures mean nothing unless they make sense to the man who looks at them...
Voice of Experience. In Rochester, N.Y. the Appellate Division of the State Supreme Court upheld the judge's decision against Mrs. Florence White's damage suit for injuries suffered in a fall, agreeing that "she might expect a barroom floor to be wet on Christmas...
...Best Friend. In Howell, Mich., the burglars who broke into the American Legion Club set a two-gallon crock of pig hocks on the barroom floor, rifled the place while the watchdog feasted...
...dime on one rocklike fist, and on the flat Texas highways drives his royal blue Cadillac at 100 m.p.h., often with a whiskey bottle at his side. He likes to shoot craps at $1,000 a throw, and has a longshoreman's uninhibited propensity for barroom fights...