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Word: climaxes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...skintight budgets and rigid shooting schedules, Cecil B. DeMille is one of the few producers who can still pursue Hollywood's ancient slogan: "The more you spend, the more you make." For the climax of Samson and Delilah (TIME, Dec. 26, 1949), he smashed his enormous temple three times before he was satisfied that he had achieved just the right touch-and the box-office returns justified his little extravagance. For the big scene of The Greatest Show on Earth, now shooting, Producer DeMille's script ordered a train wreck with "a shattering impact of shattering steel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Great Train Wreck | 5/7/1951 | See Source »

...father came home from the World War I battlefront to find the mother having an affair with another man; the figures move and blur in the depths of his memory like shapes under water. Two Men is a stark outline of boredom on a lonely African station; the climax is a blood spree that is somehow more ghastly because its victims are not people, but ducks, geese and flamingos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Short Bites | 5/7/1951 | See Source »

...complete involvement in which he can both lose himself and find himself at the same time. This seems to involve no conflict, though I might be wrong, as there also seems to be an attempt at resolution at the end. The plot fails to reach any sort of climax and the play ends with a dying fall as the young man renounces auto racing even at the moment when he finally wins a race. The scene is laid in Italy, by the way, though to no apparent purpose as neither situation nor characters is dependent on this locale...

Author: By Daniel B. Jacobs, | Title: The Playgoer | 5/3/1951 | See Source »

...spine-tingling and theatrical climax, audaciously beyond the outer limits of ordinary present-day oratory. In the wild crash of applause, many a legislative eye was wet. So were many other eyes across the land as the nation turned from radios and television screens back to office duties and neglected chores. Douglas Mac-Arthur handed his manuscript to the clerk, waved to his wife in the visitors' gallery, then strode through the cheering rows of Congressmen. History would remember this day and this man, and mark him large...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: The Old Soldier | 4/30/1951 | See Source »

...Robert Runnels Williams, the victory marks a climax in a 40-year war against beriberi which he began, as it happened, in the Philippines. At 24, an unknown research chemist in Manila's Bureau of Science, Williams noted that chronic beriberi was dramatically cured by an extract made from rice bran. That was in 1910. It gave Williams the germ of an idea which flowered, 25 years later, in his isolating vitamin BI and then synthesizing it cheaply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Down with Beriberi | 4/30/1951 | See Source »

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