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...falling asleep after a hard day's work, as he listens to a radio commercial. "Everybody still selling things to everybody else." And when asked what he is fighting for, Grant blandly quotes the cornball who declared, "I'm fighting for my right to boo the Dodgers." But the moviemakers, well aware that the script is flogging a dead horse, keep their actors busy swinging the bladder like a stageful of burlesque bananas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 25, 1957 | 11/25/1957 | See Source »

There was a second flash and a third, and soon some 32 million people were hearing about an invasion of grey monsters who glistened like wet leather jackets and were attacking New Jersey with death rays. Thus on Halloween of 1938 did Orson Welles don a sheet and say "Boo!" to the radio audience with an adaptation of H. G. Wells's classic thriller, The War of the Worlds, and launch the most garish panic in the annals of broadcasting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Review | 9/23/1957 | See Source »

...Lynch") and Walt Whitman shambles forth in his pagan-hobo way, singing The Song of the Open Road. Trying to follow each poet's vision, the music seemed to have little vision of its own, but it was skillfully scored. It evoked a lusty boo or two along with the applause in usually well-mannered Carnegie Hall. ¶Ernst Krenek's one-act opera. The Bell Tower, was premiered at the University of Illinois' Festival of Contemporary Arts, proved to be a stark, tight, declamatory work with a plot revolving about the dark deeds of a diabolical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Who Said Garbage? | 4/1/1957 | See Source »

Eight penalties were called in the first period when both sides looked clumsy on defense. The especially close contact between the two teams produced several minor disturbances on the ice which gave the pro-Harvard crowd ample opportunity to boo Michigan...

Author: By James W. B. benkard, (SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON) | Title: Varsity Hockey Team Defeated By Strong Michigan Sextet, 6-1 | 3/16/1957 | See Source »

...Biltmore Hotel last week to watch Italy's best take on a team of six of the best U.S. players was a little surprised when it was urged to break all the un written rules. "Hiss when you want to," said the master of ceremonies. "Cheer or boo or shout. The players can't hear you." The players were comfortably quaran tined behind soundproof glass walls so they would not be disturbed by crowd noise, the monologue of a commentator who mapped the play on a long board, and the scurrying of the technicians who were there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Carthage | 1/21/1957 | See Source »

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