Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Theater tactics, like trial tactics, run to throwing a certain amount of dust in people's eyes ; and in places The Caine Mutiny Court Martial has been slicked up, speeded up, shaped to measure for that treasure house of behaviorism, a courtroom. But the maneuvers always have pertinence: thus, the easy laughs at the expense of the psychiatrist are an integral part of the trial itself, not just a fillip for the show. What is sharp in the play is all the sharper for what is deliberately flat; no one understands better than Director Laughton the counter-theatricalism...
...extra Indians to fill out the wide open spaces on the screen. The blue-coats are as usual trying to get a wagon train past the redskins, and as usual they do, but only after the routine game of ring-around-a-rosy, with many an Indian biting the dust. The action is somewhat confused in this one by a chicken-pox epidemic that serves little purpose except to permit the audience and the hero (Guy Madison) to peek down the blouse of the heroine (Joan Weldon) while she is being vaccinated. The WarnerColor is pretty, too, and in stereophonic...
Whirlybird Rescue. Hardest hit of all Europe, however, were the valleys of Switzerland and Austria, where only a month ago hotelkeepers, hoping for good ski weather, had despaired of the unseasonable warmth. There, the choking Staublawinen (dust avalanches), which literally drown their victims in a rush of dry, powdery snow, and the hurtling Rutschlawinen (slide avalanches), which bury their victims under sliding tons of packed snow, ice and boulders, wrought fearful havoc...
Volcanos, enthusiastically cited by more imaginative geologists as the cause of glaciers, can actually produce enough dust to blot out much of the sun's radiant heat. Krakatoa's ash, sent sky high in 1833, cut 10 percent of France's sunlight for three years. But reductions in radiant energy cool the equator more than the poles, cutting temperature differences which create storms. Only an increase of the sun's general heating power will yield more snow, the sole food of glaciers. Yet if the sun's heat increases too much, the glaciers will melt...
...ructions of 1953, few raised more dust than the fight over book burning. Last week the American Book Publishers Council reported that whatever danger there might have been has pretty well subsided. "The censors," concluded the council, "have won a few skirmishes but lost most of the important battles." Among the battles...