Word: chases
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scout for the bluecoats, but every time old Red Cloud's boys creep up to the fort for a hair party, Mature is reconnoitering the firewater or the colonel's wife (Anne Bancroft). The colonel (Robert Preston) is 'presented as a psycho who would rather chase Red Cloud than Actress Bancroft. Vic is only too happy to take over the home detail. "Animal!" Anne pants at him one night. "Sometimes," Vic complains, "she looks at me as if I was a bear." "H'm," says his sidekick (James Whitmore...
...cement playing floor has lines painted on it called "chase lines." If the player cannot return the ball, the referee calls out "chase 4, 3, etc.," depending on which line the ball hits. The opponent then has a chance to "lay down" a better chase. If he fails, he loses the point...
...face-lifted mid-Manhattan (16 skyscrapers currently under construction) has bypassed almost completely the Wall Street financial district at the island's tip. Last week the Street, which has financed much of the uptown modernization, turned to do something about its own grimy buildings and dark canyons. Chase Manhattan Bank Chairman John J. McCloy announced tentative plans to construct a $75,000,000 downtown Rockefeller Center type of development: a 50-to 60-story Chase Bank headquarters flanked by a broad, tree-lined plaza and a 1,000-car garage...
...Chase Manhattan's new quarters, scheduled for possible 1958 completion, would consolidate under one roof 8,700 of the bank's personnel, now scattered over nine buildings, at "substantial savings in operating expenses." As its contribution to the area's rejuvenation, New York City plans to build near by a 5½-acre, 750-unit, middle-income housing project...
Chevalier's humor, obvious as most of it is, is full of subtle rapier-thrusts compared to the other film on the Brattle bill. Down Memory Lane, a collection of old Hollywood comedy sequences, offers such attractions as the Keystone Cops in a typical chase, W. C. Fields as a dentist searching for a patient's mouth in his beard, and Bing Crosby with a full head of hair. Sound effects have been dubbed in expertly, and the old-timers are consistently hilarious. As a matter of fact, the present-day Steve Allen is plainly overwhelmed. His comic narration serves...