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Word: explains (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...movie is best when it sticks to bullfighting without trying to explain it; the most exciting parts of the movie come in the unedited and continuous sequences of bullfighting. These are superb. Bryant Halliday's narration, which includes lines like, "This is the moment of supereme danger and nobility," doesn't and much to these sequences. Such an approach hides most of the humor of a bullfight. Funny things happen as much in the stands as in the arena...

Author: By Jonathan Beecher, | Title: Bullfight | 11/13/1956 | See Source »

More than injured pride and frustration had to explain Sir Anthony Eden's ruthless ultimatum and armed attack on Egypt. The justification, feebly put at the outset, but more and more emphatically later, is that Britain had lost faith in the U.N. It had decided to return to the loth century pattern of a big power's imposing peace and demanding of the rest of the world that it accept the result on the grounds that its methods are decisive and its motives high-minded. This classic role of self-appointed proctor of the world was reflected last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Danger in the Jungle | 11/12/1956 | See Source »

...networks tossed off quick rebuttals: ABC's News Boss John Daly felt that the U.N. story "vitally needs editing" before it reaches the public. Though it made no effort to explain the absence of live U.N. pickups, NBC detailed the amount of TV coverage given the Middle East crisis on spot news slots-43 minutes, 15 seconds-which Gould pooh-poohed: "When vital history was being made, NBC video was fascinated by Queen for a Day in Hollywood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Stupid & Irresponsible | 11/12/1956 | See Source »

Pointless Crime. Leopold and Loeb had a homosexual tie, and 30 years ago the words "sex" or "perversion" or "degenerate" would have seemed adequate to explain why two rich, intellectual boys should make a game of murder. Levin is not content with this explanation. He points out that Friedrich Nietzsche had introduced them to the idea of the superman, "beyond good and evil." A really superior man, they reasoned-in one of those gloomy blunders which snarl up the scribbled notebook of adolescence-could put himself above and beyond society by the successful commission of a pointless crime. They burned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murder & the Supermen | 11/12/1956 | See Source »

...true." While running a story on Hagerty's press conference, many of Pearson's regular outlets pointedly omitted his offending column. Typical explanation (by New York's Daily Mirror): "The facts did not substantiate" what Pearson wrote. The Portland Oregon Journal felt "impelled" to explain that Pearson's report was "utterly false" and "an unconscionable smear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: It Will Be Denied, But... | 11/5/1956 | See Source »

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