Word: bumps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Betty Boop. Along the line two gloves and a skirt fly off; then, as suddenly sultry as the sirocco, Lola wheels to flaunt the angular arabesques of Theda Bara, flicks a shapely backside at her prey, slides out of a pair of lace panties, and departs northward to bump and grind in the old-fashioned tradition of burlesque. Pleased and bewildered, Ballplayer Joe sits happily helpless through it all, and in the end goes back to his wife, just as he intended from the beginning...
...junior space cadet may scream out in the night as he dreams man's ancient dream of falling through space, but he usually wakes up, at worst, on the floor, with nothing more than a slight bump. The real space traveler can count on no such happy ending. Space scientists believe that he will have to learn to live with a feeling of helpless falling while he flies through the stage of zero gravity. His nightmare will also include arms and legs that do not respond normally, and a sickening mental confusion about which...
...Nelson Bump, Regional Vice-President of National Airlines, opened the conference by telling students that they would get only $300 a month as newly-hired agents, and risked being "buried in low positions...
...French Line (RKO Radio) is long on notoriety and short on entertainment. It begins with a tame striptease by Jane Russell (she ducks behind furniture as she takes it off) and closes with a bump-and-grind dance that shocked both the Breen office and the Legion of Decency, though it is more notable for poor taste than salaciousness. These two low points of the picture are connected by a limp story line that once again asks the burning question: How can a U.S. millionheiress be sure that she is loved for herself and not for her millions? Gilbert Roland...
...between booming songs, (Keel and chorus), and snow capped mountains, Fernando Lamas slinks in from the swamp and proceeds to capture the affections of naive Rose Marie. This is singularly ungratifying because besides being a poacher and corrupter of the wilderness, he is two-timing a cute little Indian bump and grind dancer named Jane Grey. It might be said with some justification here that Lamas, "who loves zee woods, and cannot stond zee ceeties and zee thought of zee zame ever'day", does not quite come across as a lover of the aesthetic. Even when he answers Ann Blyth...