Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...promised Nehru solemnly that he would never dream of such a dreadful thing, proceeded forthwith to violate a frontier. The Communist Pathet Lao regime, which had grabbed some 13,000 sq. mi. of northern Laos in flagrant violation of the Geneva cease-fire agreements, began as a Viet Minh appendage. In the past year Ho's agents have built it up into a tightly disciplined Communist state, complete with full-dress government ministries, a capital at Samneua, brainwashing squads and a conscripted army of 10,000 men trained, supplied, and controlled by 1.500 or more regular Viet Minh troops...
When he started writing "Dream Street," a once-a-week Broadway column, for the New York Daily News in 1951, Drama Critic Robert M. (for McPhierson) Sylvester saw little future for Broadway columnists. The migration to the suburbs, he reasoned, was not only killing off nightclubs but the demand for warmed-over café gossip as well. Columnist Sylvester was too pessimistic. When busy Telecaster Ed Sullivan cut his columns to two-a-week last May, the News upped "Dream Street" to five-a-week. By last week, it was syndicated in 30 papers...
...subtle and rather dream-like atmosphere of madness does, in fact, seep into most of the scenes of the film because of its unusual photographic technique. The camera seldom remains still for more than a moment before tilting upward to some tricky angle or plunging in for a close-up shot. A purist might well object that Strindbergh, a believer in the strictly life-like, naturalistic technique during the period in which he produced Miss Julie, would not have tolerated such an approach to his play. In the light of contemporary tastes, however, the film adaptation is still an improvement...
...other. The production's one real merit: the sensuous dancing of dark-haired Violetta Elvin as Tiresias the Woman, and especially the moment when her partner lifts the ballerina and moves her across stage as she takes huge, slow strides as if she were running in a dream landscape...
...Eiffel Tower . . . who loathe crossing a frontier without smuggling something just to be doing it but dislike not being legally en règle . . . and finally, who are delighted when one of their great men talks to them of their greatness, their great civilizing mission ... but who dream of nothing except to retire, after a pleasant little life, to a quiet little corner . . . with a little wife who will be satisfied with inexpensive little dresses...