Word: dust
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...such an unpleasant subject," your mother says as you open one of the tins. The film wound around the rusty reels is brown and moldy: fungus-like organisms have sprouted from the innumerable folds. Overcome by a powerful smell, you sneeze on it, and the brown film crumbles into dust...
...destruction by decay. Until the last decade, film was made from a nitrate base, both flammable and subject to erosion. The film archivist works against time: the older the film, the more likely the chances of physical degeneration -- and the chance of its vanishing forever in a pile of dust...
...book's dust jacket notes that "most of Condon's other novels have been bought by H*ll*w**d." It is doubtful that The Ecstasy Business will ever see the dark of a movie theater. On the other hand, five years ago, who would have believed...
...intentions, Dubček has removed almost every restraint on the press and other media. He has banished the party censors from the Central Publications Administration, which oversees the printing of everything from books to streetcar tickets. He has released for production four movie scripts that had been gathering dust in the censors' office, even allowed TV newsmen into-of all places-a meeting of the Presidium. As reassurance to Czechoslovakia's writers and intellectuals, whose clamor for change led to his takeover, Dubček has approved publication of a new liberal journal entitled Liter...
Carry On. NBC offered Dear Mr. Gable, a brisk review of the multifaceted life of the longtime king of Holly wood. There was footage of Gable with Mary Astor in Red Dust (1932), scenes from his triumph with Grace Kelly 22 years later in Mogambo. And there were shots of Gable as an Air Corps Captain in World...