Word: defiant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world. It is trumpeted as "the biggest story . . . The single most important film of our time." Last week it had a "Global Premiere," i.e., a simultaneous opening in 17 cities from Melbourne to Moscow. Alas, the version of the Nevil Shute chiller (TIME, Aug. 19, 1957) that Stanley (The Defiant Ones) Kramer has produced and directed turns out to be a sentimental sort of radiation romance, in which the customers are considerately spared any scenes of realistic horror, and are asked instead to accept the movie notion of what is really horrible about the end of the world: boy (Gregory...
...Mathis. Lola, who must settle for less, deserves more. She has been learning her trade, scrabbling at the edges of show business, ever since she sang Listen to the Mocking Bird at her home-town Y.W.C.A. in Akron 25 years ago. She was a gawky ten-year-old then, defiant of her parents' dislike of anything that smacked of entertainment. Today, at 35, she sometimes concludes that show business has been defying...
...stereo). A sinewy, appealing excursion into atonality by one of the foremost U.S. members of the club. For three movements, Composer Weber has his strings weaving melancholy, attenuated fretworks of sound, giving way in the fourth movement to a darkly swelling choir and in the finale to a spasmodically defiant march. Fascinating, if a trifle low in body heat...
...miners for 25% of all workdays lost by strikes in the 22 years before 1949). Here was the rebel who had founded the C.I.O., left it, rejoined the A.F.L., left it ("TheA.F.L. has no head; its neck just growed and haired over"). There were flashes of the old defiant Lewis who had traded hot words with Federal Judge T. Alan Goldsborough and accepted historic contempt fines of $2,130,000 against his United Mine Workers union and himself, the same old thunderer who had led his coal miners from economic prostration in the Depression to a $24.25 daily basic wage...
...most fervent opponents of splits are old-line managements who feel that the high price of a stock is synonymous with quality. Splitting a blue chip selling at $100 so that it sells at $20 would wash out its blueness. Superior Oil of California takes a defiant pride in the fact that its stock sells at $1,850 a share...