Word: blur
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...improbable situations. With the notable exceptions of the heroine's upholstered sweater and the calculated cuteness of a seven-year-old child actor (Gordon Gebert), Scripter Isobel Lennart and Producer-Director Don Hartman have managed to hide most of the comedy's implausibilities in a mellow blur of unpretentious good humor...
Such negative virtues are not quite enough. Miss Foley's contributors are earnest and well-intentioned, but nothing emerges boldly or sharply from their work. Lacking individuality or even eccentricity, most of the stories settle in the reader's mind like a grey blur. Though young in years, the writers seem old and weary in spirit...
When television sales began to blur several months ago, Admiral Corp.'s President Ross Siragusa thought he had the answer. By stamping entire console cabinets out of plastic in one piece (TIME, May 16), he was able to step up output and make some handsome price cuts. Last week it looked as though Siragusa's answer was right. Admiral Corp. had a second-quarter profit of $1.6 million, 129% more than its net for the same 1948 period...
...untidy theatrics. And Castle's particular predicament is far too unusual to mean anything. He is surely one of very few heroes in history-even Hollywood history-who have been forced to choose between a prison sentence and $3,744,000. The whole evening, moreover, is an artistic blur-half morality play about saving Castle's soul, half melodrama about saving his skin...
...bombers, Flying Boxcars, jet-propelled fighters. Then came the parade with massed flags and flashing-legged columns of infantry, floats, Sousa rhythms of military bands, and, at the tail end, a circus calliope. The sunflash from the headlamps of the motorcycle escort made the TV image blur and throb. The hat-waving crowd cheered, torn paper drifted across the screen, and the cameras caught the 32nd President of the U.S. sipping coffee as the parade rolled...