Word: cabinent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After the war Moricand scouted out Miller's place of rest in California. Miller was living precariously in a cabin above the cliffs at Big Sur with a young wife (his third), a small daughter, a plenitude of unpaid bills and an uncertain future...
...into the morning the Times waited for what it hoped would be an eyewitness report from Times Madrid Correspondent Camille Ci-anfarra, traveling aboard the Andrea Doria. "We ought to get some good cover age from Cianfarra," said Catledge. But the story never came. Sleeping in his cabin, Timesman Cianfarra, a veteran of more than 25 years, was killed instantly by the Stockholm's ice-crusher bow, along with his daughter...
...wrench to open the door of the pilot's compartment, the outer knob of which had been removed (an ordinary flying precaution in Communist countries), the pilot himself threw the ship into a series of violent maneuvers, sudden power dives, steep climbing turns and skidding yawing. Inside the cabin the embattled passengers rattled about like ice cubes in a cocktail shaker, while heavy crates of cargo, torn loose from their moorings, cascaded back and forth...
...adaptation of "Uncle Tom's Cabin," produced by the palace harem to display its western culture, loses none of its ingenuousness on the screen, and is infinitely more convincing in its impressionistic sets than any troupe of true Siamese could effect...
...biggest and best production number is the famed ballet representing a Siamese version of Uncle Tom's Cabin, choreographed by Jerome Robbins, and enchantingly danced by Yuriko and Marion Jim. The King and I moves along satisfactorily from spectacle to spectacle until the conclusion, when its message (democracy is good; slavery is bad) gets a truly pedestrian delivery at Yul Brynner's deathbed. But the jokes are pleasant, the children cute, and the songs, though familiar, have the springtime bounciness that mark Rodgers and Hammerstein's work...