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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...style in the acting-a common fault in Hollywood's period pieces. Actor Boyer, for instance, falls somewhere between Paris and Hollywood, but wherever it is, it is not New Orleans. And he seems understandably embarrassed by many of his lines-"Death! Ha! Whan eet come, speet een eets eye." Actress Bloom intrudes a British note, and Actor Heston, as a sweet-talking, milk-sopping Old Hickory with a phony Tennessee accent, makes just about the silliest of the screen's counterfeits of the face on the $20 bill. And Actor Brynner does little more than bound about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jan. 19, 1959 | 1/19/1959 | See Source »

...Magnanimous bosom heaving like a passionate surf as she flung out a flood of Italian. When informed that her first U.S. picture would be shown on widescreen, Magnani publicly sneered: "Poof! Widescreen!" When TV came with opulent offers, she recoiled: "Weel I have to hold a bowl of cereal een my hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: World's Greatest Actress | 12/19/1955 | See Source »

...Cornell students have been suspended for a year for making a surprise raid on the studio under the camouflage of Hallow'een masks. They seized the transmitting facilities and for several minutes threw listeners into a panic by broadcasting news of Soviet attacks on European cities. The students are protesting the University's action...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Northwestern Bounces Editors And Cornell Boots Maskedmen | 6/3/1952 | See Source »

...test his hunch, Lissmann touched the water with two electrodes connected with an oscillograph. When the two-way fish swam near, a series of regular electrial pulses showed on the oscillograph een. Then Lissmann dipped ends of a copper wire into .the aquarium. The little fish fled in terror, its radar apparently mistaking the wire for a bigger and hostile fash. It also fled from a wire carrying artificial electric pulses. But when Professor Lissmann fed its own pulses back into the water, the fish attacked the electrodes presumably taking them for a rival of its own species...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Two-Way Fish | 4/9/1951 | See Source »

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