Word: en
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plot leads inevitably to a snarl of identity between the two cowboys, both played by Howard Keel. But the picture picks up most of its fun en route, in the desperate connivance and tart wisecracks of MacMurray and McGuire, the elaborate innocence of Callaway's double, the real Smoky's talent for caching liquor so cleverly that he stays bewilderingly plastered throughout his alcoholic cure. Hopalong, however, need not call the sheriff. Callaway bares its teeth only to grin, not to bite; and it provides parents with welcome comic relief from the hoofbeats that have invaded...
Because the director will often call for shooting in the morning, during class hours, the crews have been divided into two sections. Crews almost never go out en masse...
...State Department now seemed prepared to follow Britain's Micawberish line: let Mossadegh fall, perhaps his successor will be more tractable. Mossadegh flew off home, scheduling a stop en route at Cairo, where he and the Egyptians could make muscles at the British together. That might divert his homefolks from his empty hands...
Richard Casey, Australia's handsome Minister for External Affairs and an old Egypt hand, stopped off at Cairo last week, en route to the Paris U.N. meeting. After talking with Egyptian friends, Casey sat down with a scotch & soda and told newsmen: "This situation of tension can't go on indefinitely. Something's got to happen." Did Casey see a way out? a newsman asked. "No," said the diplomat...
...generation of the '205 was devoutly iconoclastic. It put on (in the words of T. S. Eliot) "the black cap of jem'en joutisme"-of I-don't-give-a-damn-ism. It discovered with a mixture of horror and delight that it was living in a brand-new age, the 20th Century, and it decided to burn all the old cultural furniture. This huge fire, while it caused incalculable damage, cast a sharp, new light across U.S. civilization-and encouraged the younger generation of that day to do a whooping war dance around it. Gertrude Stein...