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Word: cavernously (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...polarized system on a common axis for 3-D; also the vibrating-prism system of Citizen Kane for all-in-focus effect . . . A few problems remain (beside the presently unsolved nicker effects, etc., emphasized by 3-D), such as-which is the best way offstage? Into a subterranean cavern below the camera, or over the horizon, or behind the nearest hill or building...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 29, 1953 | 6/29/1953 | See Source »

Divorced. By Martha Raye, 36, cavern-mouthed comedienne of screen (Monsieur Verdoux) and TV (All Star Review): her fourth husband, Nick Condos, 45, manager of her Miami Beach nightspot, the Five O'Clock Club; after ten years of marriage, one daughter; in Miami...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 29, 1953 | 6/29/1953 | See Source »

Gonzélez did not try to convert his rough-walled cavern into a conventional church interior. At the inner end of the parallel tunnels, where the final cross.-shaft formed an end wall, he mined out an apse -a rounded cave in line with the nave. He paved the innermost 150 ft. of the nave and aisles, wainscoted the wall and pillars in brick or limestone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLOMBIA: Underground Cathedral | 12/29/1952 | See Source »

...good many ways it was a disappointment. Visually, most of Carmen came through flat and featureless. The second-act inn looked more like a cavern than a tavern, and in the long shots the singers were as faceless as blips on a radar screen. Moreover, there was trouble with the sound reproduction in some theaters. Reported Critic Claudia Cassidy in the Chicago Tribune: "What the sound equipment was up to, besides sandblasting, I'm not certain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Met by Wire | 12/22/1952 | See Source »

...Jesus' knowledge of the cavemen's customs. One thing was still lacking: the central meeting place of their social life. This year an assistant who was climbing a face of the mountain found a narrow opening and threw a lighted newspaper into it. Inside was a great cavern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Prehistoric City | 10/13/1952 | See Source »

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