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Word: dusts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Britain catalogue. But doughty Horse Painter Sir Alfred Munnings, 73, onetime president of the Royal Academy, was not amused. "This thrusting of . . . third-rate opinions down the throats of a public who still believe in tradition and drawing," he said, may "temporarily reduce the fine arts to a dust heap." Established Revolutionaries. Actually, Sir Kenneth and his council panel have kept a pretty fair balance between new & old. Their program has included makes tions of Picasso ceramics and "Young Contemporaries," but also shows of Rem brandt, Rowlandson and even needlework...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Culture's Minister | 6/2/1952 | See Source »

...product of a 9,200-mile location trek, is the first Hollywood movie to be made in Australia. The trip paid off with striking Technicolor scenes that Director Lewis Milestone shot around Sydney and rugged Flinders Range: a cattle stampede in a bushfire, a corroboree rain dance, a blistering dust storm and a slashing bullwhip battle between a couple of bushrangers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: All Outdoors | 6/2/1952 | See Source »

Kangaroo actually concerns itself with some goings-on in the South Australian cattle country during an unseasonable drought. But the full screenplay is hopelessly complicated and extremely disjointed, involving among other things a long lost son, a gambling house murder, a stampede, a dust storm, and a bull whip fight. Under these circumstances, the only way to retain your peace of mind is to abandon all attempts at following the story and take each incident as it comes...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Kangaroo | 5/31/1952 | See Source »

...hauled furniture to the school for scenery and props"). In a Masonic musical revue, she put so much passion into an Apache dance that she threw one arm out of its socket. Jamestown citizens still remember her explosive personality with wonder: it took quite a while for the dust to settle in Jamestown when Lucille finally left-for Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Sassafrassa, the Queen | 5/26/1952 | See Source »

...from the one that Broadway took to its heart in 1921. Unhappily, in fact, it is not really a show at all. A ragged World War II yarn about a lively WAC widow whose husband turns out not to be dead, it shambles and stumbles along in the choking dust of old dialect gags, while the music and dancing seem to prolong the agony rather than interrupt it. From the old days, Shuffle Along has wisely retained I'm Just Wild About Harry and Love Will Find a Way, and two or three of the new tunes are pleasant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Old Title in Manhattan | 5/19/1952 | See Source »

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