Word: boulevarding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Negros Occidental, second most populous province in the Philippines, everything ran on time: the buses, sugar production and the voters. The Huks were nonexistent; the roads at night were made as safe as Dewey Boulevard in Manila at high noon; sugar output, hard hit by war, had been quickly restored; and the voters knew exactly what to do -or else. Special police, armed with carbines, made sure there were no slipups...
Most of these fads and fancies were duly reported by Popular Mechanics, a lusty new magazine, whose editors ignored Einstein and took a dim view of the horseless carriage ("Not that the time will ever come when ... horses [will] entirely disappear from boulevard and town . . ."). They had more faith in lighter-than-air craft than they had in airplanes. They recorded the invention of perpetual motion machines and the impact of the telephone on the Turkish harem...
...most part the Harvard community's taste is very similar to that of the rest of the nation. Last year's big hits were "Born Yesterday," "Chapter by the Dozen," and "Sunset Boulevard," all of which had from 10,000 to 15,000 paid admissions during their three-day stands. Musicals go well, but "in the last year war pictures have been poison here--just poison...
...scullery maid, a cheap Cinderella with no hope of a pumpkin"), Lana moved to Los Angeles with her mother, who went to work in a beauty parlor. One sunny morning, when Lana was a lush 15, she sneaked out of Hollywood High School to play hooky at a Sunset Boulevard soda fountain. A man walked up and said: "How would you like to be in pictures?" Surprisingly, the proposition was on the level...
...that the branch of the service which concerns it, and its hero in particular, did the fighting that really won the war. At the climax, Tanker Cochran almost singlehanded drives a wedge through the Siegfried Line, which appears to be an area no deeper than the width of Sunset Boulevard. Amid such juvenile heroics, only the tanks look real, and they expend ammunition with an abandon which should horrify U.S. taxpayers and delight the shoot-'em-up enthusiasts for whom this low-caliber movie was tooled...