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...Pontiac lengthened its bodies (2.4 in.), boosted horsepower from 200 to 227, has a new Hydra-Matic shift that lessens the "bump" between gears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: New Models | 10/31/1955 | See Source »

...realest thing about young Hal, a tenth-rate agent for Arcadia Life, is the queasy feeling in the pit of his stomach when he faces his boss, his girl, or anyone else. As he somnambulates through life with a nagging sense of being out of step, people bump into him as if he were invisible, and prospects look out the window when he wants them to sign on the dotted line. Snaps his girl friend Rose: "You don't even look as if you were going anywhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Self-Help Spoof | 8/22/1955 | See Source »

Moonfleet (M.G.M) has a fine midnight flavor of yawning graves, skeletons, gibbeted men, ghouls and things that go bump in the dark. When the sun is shining, the action is further embellished with slashing swordplay, wild chases over fen and moor, and an Soft, descent into the deepest well in Dorsetshire. The CinemaScope thriller is based on J. Meade Falkner's classic adventure story of British smugglers, and just as the novel itself was reminiscent of Robert Louis Stevenson, so the movie faithfully echoes other good movies: the graveyard encounter between boy and convict in Great Expectations is almost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 20, 1955 | 6/20/1955 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: The Devil's Disciple | 6/13/1955 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Weightless in Space | 5/30/1955 | See Source »

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