Word: everymanic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...RAILROAD MAN. The commonplace woes of everyman catch up with a devil-may-care railroad engineer in this family drama, made in 1956 by Director Pietro Germi (Divorce-Italian Style), who also plays the title role...
...look," and the Daily Telegraph exulted that the car "has stepped down from some realm remote from ordinary things and is now 'with it.' " But the style changes shocked and saddened traditionalists. The magazine Auto-Journal observed that by bringing the car "into the classic line of everyman's car, Rolls no longer strikes the eye and thus loses a great part of its singularity and originality." Paris' Le Monde regretted that "Rolls is losing little by little its character of collector's item by making sacrifices to progress...
...clothing industry could legislate, Everyman's closet would permanently hold eight suits, one tuxedo, five sports coats, seven pairs of slacks' two topcoats, four hats and 18 shirts-the wardrobe that the industry prescribes as ideal. The average American man has always been much more cautious: he has bought only when he needed to, spent only a modest $133 annually. Result: the industry has long been stationary and profit-starved. In fact, 40 years ago, 1,000,000 more men's suits were turned out than last year, when production was 21.7 million...
...three Yorkshires almost everywhere. Tenor Franco Corelli travels with a poodle. Actor Rex Harrison brings a basset hound, and Gypsy Rose Lee has even smuggled her Chinese hairless puppy onto an airplane in her bra. With all that precedent, it was hardly a surprise that Mr. and Mrs. Everyman got the idea too. The result is that now Rover is roving all over the world nearly as much as his owner...
...bigots, weaklings and other morally rumpled types, booked from Veracruz to Bremerhaven on the German vessel Vera during the early 1930s. Skirting the allegorical deeps, Producer-Director Stanley Kramer and Scenarist Abby Mann (Judgment at Nuremberg) have turned Ship into just another showboat-a flashy popular melodrama, acted with everyman-for-himself urgency by a troupe of scintillating international stars...