Word: cinema
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Christian Democrats need to do," said one young party worker, "is to invite the voters to look around. Here in Agrigento eight years ago, we had only one badly attended cinema, now we have three and they are all full; three cafes, now at least a dozen. Eight years ago the province had ice cream only on special feast days, now everybody in every small town can buy ice cream every day of the year...
...told, U.S. producers were making or preparing to make at least ten major pictures in Spain, representing an investment of some $25 million and underscoring the fact that almost overnight Madrid has supplanted Rome as the cinema capital of Europe. Items...
Died. James Agee, 45. novelist (The Morning Watch), poet (Permit Me Voyage), screen writer (The Quiet One, The African Queen), onetime magazine writer (for FORTUNE) and cinema critic (for TIME); of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
First, he asked the U.N. General Assembly to adopt a resolution urging 1) state control of "any form of propaganda of a new war ... in press, radio, cinema and in public statements," i.e., government censorship on the loosest of terms; 2) settlement of "outstanding international questions through negotiation between the powers"; 3) "withdrawal by the four powers of their occupation forces from the territory of Germany to their national frontiers" - suggesting that the Red army might pull back to Russia, not Poland, if the U.S. forces pulled back to the U.S., not France; 4) "dismantling of military bases on foreign...
Recently, Contributing Editor Braestrup previewed a French semi-documentary film, Heartbreak Ridge (see CINEMA). It tells the story of another 2nd lieutenant in the same war. Braestrup's review is, to me, one that could have been written only by someone who had been there...