Word: cliff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scientific lingo and its own slang ("Shootin' rockets!" "What in the universe!"), Moser borrows from older art forms. "Like any cowboy hero, Buzz Corry is above sex," he explains. "He never kisses anything but the cold nose of his space ship." Moser has also put a taboo on cliff-hanging ("If we cause a single nightmare we have failed in our purpose")-Should a program end with Commander Corry facing a ray gun and certain death, the TV camera moves in to show a faint smile on the hero's face. The smile...
...gorgeous and traditional geisha, can't hope to land Minoru, the weakling son of a count. The girl who successfully bucks Ko-ume is rich, intelligent, beautiful, and a nobleman's daughter besides. Ko-ume naturally does the natural thing: she hops off a cliff. Ko-ume's brother Takeo is something else, a young peasant back from the infantry whose earthiness envelops the count's liberal daughter before he's halfway through repairing her shattered greenhouse. These two are the new Japan, ready to start from scratch on a small farm, cool to both...
...Each time King Kong is revived [TIME, July 14], more of the picture is cut. Not since 1933 have audiences seen the scene on the cliff in which Kong sits to examine his prize (Fay Wray) and tears off part of her dress ... Is this scene in the 1952 revival or does bluenose prudery win another round...
Robertson has been stabbed, shot five times, beaten up twice, and almost drowned after a jump from a 70-ft. cliff, he, Lydia, and the emerging republic manage to survive...
...Motes's competitors in street preaching; another is Onnie Jay Holy, whose religious interest runs mainly to the collection plate. Motes's career comes to a gruesome end when he deliberately blinds himself because a mean-spirited cop has pushed his unlicensed Essex over a cliff...