Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seemed an improbable place for it, to everyone but the citizens of Waco (pronounced Way-co). This week they began a $750,000 white marble building, studded with stained-glass windows, to house the largest Browning collection in the world. The city itself had donated a whole block for it, right next to the Baylor University campus. The man who had made Browning a hero to Waco was Baylor's bushy-browed Professor A. Joseph Armstrong...
...pictures in theater chains and they could do it; the big studios owned the chains. For the same reason, independent theater owners had found it almost as hard to book the big studios' best pictures, except on the big studios' own hard terms. Among the terms: "block booking," i.e., buying movies in blocks of five or more (often four poor movies for every good...
Clean Sweep. In 1938, the antitrust division of the Department of Justice set out to end such tie-in sales. It filed suit against Paramount, Loew's Inc.(M-G-M), RKO, Warner Bros, and 20th Century-Fox to have block booking declared illegal. But in the labyrinth of deals and counter-deals in Hollywood, the antitrust division found that it had to go farther. The same suit named Columbia, United Artists and Universal. It buttressed its case with suits against Griffith Amusement Co. (with theaters in 85 towns in Oklahoma, Texas and New Mexico) and the Stanley...
...Outlawed block booking and the fixing of minimum admission prices as a condition of rental. It also ordered the film companies to eliminate unreasonable "clearances," i.e., the period that must elapse between the time a picture is shown in a first-run house and its appearance in neighboring theaters...
...knew, but every carving had to be at least a reminder of the unknown. In reaching for the supernatural, the Negro tribesmen lightened their load by tossing naturalism overboard. Their sculptures were subject to just one academic discipline: What can you do with a knife and a block of wood...