Word: blowing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...love with the bridge. He builds it better than the Japanese could have done without him, as a symbol of what can be accomplished by British "soldiers, not slaves." So infatuated is he with his wooden love-child that he nearly frustrates an attempt by Allied commandoes to blow...
...stem from one trait: conscientiousness carried to the point of mania. Alec Guinness plays him with deft stiffness. His torture scenes are appropriately ghastly, and he resists the temptation to clown. William Holden gives his usual performance as a soldier who escapes from the prison camp and returns to blow up the bridge. Jack Hawkins and Geoffrey Horne are his fellow commandoes, Sessue Hayakawa is the blustering Japanese commandant, and all of them are unexceptionable...
...radio audience. Godfrey's sponsors are still strongly loyal to their star salesman, but his rating losses on the network schedule pose a problem for CBS, which this season has lost some of its audience edge over an aggressive NBC and a fast-growing ABC. Another blow to CBS has been the slippage of The $64,000 Question, which, despite such frantic publicity stunts as an appearance by Jack Benny, dropped out of the Nielsen top ten for the first time in 2½ years. Strike It Rich is dropping right out of the CBS schedule next week...
...stage," searching for a buckle that had burst from his trousers. It was in a performance of Romeo and Juliet that 1) Mr. Coates was almost struck by a flung Bantam cock, 2) Paris, lying dead on the stage, was instantaneously "raised to life by 'a terrific blow on the nose from an orange...
...colonel and his men set merrily to work, all unaware that in building their bridge, they are also constructing a hideous paradox. Even as the British prisoners, with proper pride, are drawing plans for their structure, a British Commando unit is hatching a plot to blow it up. As the bridge mounts, so does the suspense. For every timber that slides into place, the raiders (William Holden, Jack Hawkins, Geoffrey Home) make another march to their goal. As in some awful myth, as in all human history, creation and destruction keep inexorable step. They collide in a conclusion that will...