Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hold spending to $97 billion for the current fiscal year (v. an already budgeted $98.8 billion) and to $98 billion for fiscal 1965. Without such a rider, said Wisconsin's John Byrnes, ranking Republican on the Ways and Means Committee, the tax cut would "set off a time bomb of inflation...
Inflationary Time Bomb. If the bill was going to do all that, then why was it necessary for the President to drum up popular support for it? The answer is that the bill is in trouble. And if there was more than a touch of demagoguery in Kennedy's 21-minute talk, it was rooted in the worry that his tax-cut measure would be defeated or rendered completely worthless. "There are those who, for one reason or another, hope to delay this bill," said the President darkly, "or to water down its effects...
...bomb exploded, with the force of ten to 15 sticks of dynamite. It had been planted under the steps behind the 50-year-old building...
Shadow of the Bomb. The historians of the new cinema, searching out its origins, go back to another festival, the one at Venice in 1951. That year the least promising item on the cinemenu was a Japanese picture called Rashomon. Japanese pictures, as all film experts knew, were just a bunch of rubber chrysanthemums. So the judges sat down yawning. They got up dazed. Rashomon was a cinematic thunderbolt that violently ripped open the dark heart of man to prove that the truth was not in it. In technique the picture was traumatically original; in spirit it was big, strong...
...conceived as a parody of the usual Hollywood western, mingles blood and belly laughs in a ferocious satire on the manners, morals and politics of the 20th century. I Live in Fear (1955), an eerie and comminatory meditation on the life of man in the shadow of the Bomb, was shown last week as a special treat for festival fans but it may never be shown commercially in the U.S.-the exhibitors think it's too hot to handle...