Word: beaches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thin patch of pines at Kobe Sound, Fla., 25 miles north of Palm Beach, passers-by gaped last week at two odd-looking "bubble houses," the first built from designs by Connecticut Architect Eliot Noyes (TIME, June 22). Built around large nylon and rubber bubbles, reinforced with wire and then sprayed with two coats of concrete (called shot crete), the houses can withstand winds of 125 m.p.h., are sealed against the hordes of insects found in warm climates. Inside, partitions reach up just to the curve of the ceiling; only the bathroom is enclosed, with Fiberglas. The four-room...
Richard Nixon, heir to the Throttlebottom dynasty, realized the painfully narrow limits of the job and, in the best vice-presidential tradition, made jokes about it. On Election Day 1952, Candidate Nixon and a friend were tossing a football on Laguna Beach, Calif, with three marines who happened by. Chasing a fumble, Nixon and one marine almost collided. Recognition lit up the marine's face. He exclaimed: "Good God, you're some kind of a celebrity!" Answered Dick Nixon: "No, I'm not a celebrity. I'm running for Vice President...
...which the President and Evita passed some of their happiest times, has been drastically rebuilt since Evita's death. Crews of workers added tennis and basketball courts, a swimming pool, open-air theater and riding stables. So that the high-school girls could go to the nearby river beach without crossing a busy street, Peron had a costly tunnel dug. Last week, with most of the alterations completed, President Peron turned the quinta over to the girls for a second clubhouse. "It's too big for a lone man like me," said...
Aware of the pitfalls of this essentially episodic plot, the directors have skillfully developed a pervasive feeling of loneliness in Joey after the allure of the Midway wears off. It is a loneliness imposed by the preoccupied bathers on Coney Island's beach and the silhouetted couple who kiss beneath the boardwalk. Only a pony-ride attendant provides any understanding, and partly because of this new friendship and partly because of a fetish for horses, Joey becomes a familiar figure around the concession. It is this attendant who aids Joey's brother in finding the boy and returning...
...photographic touches employed throughout the movie provide pleasant diversions from the frequently trite techniques used by Hollywood. Skillful treatment of the beach scenes and the close-ups of Andruseu framed by amusement park fixtures add much to the film. In all, The Little Fugitive is a fine movie about a child-seldom sentimental and often humorous. It deserves the places it has been winning on 1953's "Ten Best" lists...