Word: cinema
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...also the year of 3-D, Cinema-Scope, Cinerama, big screen, stereophonic sound and other technical tricks designed to make Marilyn Monroe look 64 feet long (couchant) and intended to lure back, by sheer gigantism, the public that had been lost to 17-inch TV screens. This too was sometimes called progress...
...this House prepared to put this issue fairly and squarely to his constituents?" demanded Assistant Postmaster-General David Gammans. "Is he prepared to say, 'You have for centuries had the right to sit on a jury and judge your fellow citizens; you have a completely free press; your cinema and your stage are not government-controlled, and you have the ballot box by which you can decide your fate and that of millions of your fellow citizens; but you are not fit to be trusted with freedom of television...
...labor relations. By concentrating on these, Father Morlion thinks, the university will be influencing the most active managers and molders of the future. As undergraduates, students move on from philosophy to economics, labor, and political science, can later specialize in their chosen careers. Their work is anything but orthodox: cinema students actually help shoot Italian films; journalists work as legmen for Rome reporters...
...December 1952 by Arch Oboler's inept Bwana Devil, and seeming to prove that audiences would look at anything that could leap out and bite them. Cinerama, playing in only seven cities, grossed a staggering $6,000,000. But no sooner was Hollywood retooling for 3-D than Cinema Scope rocked the industry with its widescreen, multiple-sound-track productions of The Robe and How to Marry a Millionaire...
...most successful adventure stories had a personal-narrative quality that challenged the year's best fiction. Two of the best, and bestselling as well, were by Frenchmen: Maurice Herzog's thriller about the scaling of Annapurna (see CINEMA) and J. Y. Cousteau's eerily poetic description of deep-sea diving, The Silent World. Finest of the field was Charles Lindbergh's recollection of his flight across the Atlantic in 1927, The Spirit of St. Louis...