Word: climaxes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...implosions. Clocks stop and metal objects go slithering around under the influence of the magnetic force. A race against time to kill off the element is accomplished by jet plane. The whole thing is up-to-the-minute and quasi-scientifically hair-raising. Best sequence: a flickering, high-voltage climax as the menacing element is smashed to smithereens in a gigantic, subterranean deltatron...
...America are somewhat comparable to conditions as they were in China in the mid-'30s when the Communist movement ,was getting started. They were beginning to develop hatred of the American and the Britisher, but we didn't do anything adequate about it. It ... came to a climax...
...skillful first act, Inge makes it clear that his resolution in the second act is an inevitability. The third ties up the consequences. Except for occasional dramatic irony dealing with a few frustrated school teachers, the action is tense and expectant, moving, as one reviewer has already commented, "from climax to climax...
...laboratory scene of The Man in the white Suit: the greatest train wreck ever filmed in The Greatest Show on Earth; the scene in The Quiet Man in which Barry Fitzgerald walks into the newly weds cottage after their fast night and finds the broken bed; the climax of the Crimson Pirate a perfect parody, during which a balloon and a submarine attack a square rigger...
...U.S.S.R. conducted by Samuel Samossoud; Vanguard). Prokofiev's latest (1950) composition to reach U.S. shores. The message is the expected and politic one of the clear skies and a bright future, but there is plenty of drama in the ten movements, provided by scenes from World War II (climax: Stalingrad) and a warmhearted, slightly Wagneresque lullaby...