Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bottom...
...pieces. Easy-laughing, they are honest, independent and, as the bulging-eyed gringo tourist who has seen the unabashed Tehuanas bathing in the river can testify, painstakingly clean. Inhibitions hardly exist, as even their superstitions show: if a man feels an overwhelming urge to smack a girl's bottom, Tehuanas think he'd better do it, rather than restrain himself and thus make the girl the victim of his covetous evil...
Television, it seemed, was the final blow. The weekly audience was down from 80 million to 46 million, with the bottom not in sight, and theaters were closing three a day. (Since 1946, some 5,000 of them have become ghost houses, or been converted to supermarkets...
...expense. No prosceniums would have to be torn down, no costly lenses bought. Best of all, the backlog would be safe. Almost all the old pictures could be projected to fill the new, not-so-wide screens. True, about 25% would be lost from the top or bottom of the picture, but as Metro's Dore Schary sanely said. "All you lose is air, anyway." For a few actors' heads the public would probably not argue the point. The first of the "retreads" to be shown on wide screen, Paramount's Shane and Universal's Thunder...
...French Riviera. Picasso's War shows a team of horses pulling a hearse through seas of blood. Atop the carriage sits a monster with a pack full of corpses; his snorting horses trample the world's culture, and in his wake float evil, lobster-sized germs. At bottom, two suppliant hands show mankind's futile protest against the horrors of modern war. Standing alone is the Communist version of mankind's protector: a heroic Red peace partisan, with a peace dove shield. The other panel is Picasso's personal dream of peace, where anything...