Word: eyestraining
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Unimpressed by newspaper ads that promised the customers: "A lion in your lap! ... A lover in your arms!" Los Angeles critics quarreled with the movie itself, the sensation of jungle leaves in the face, the eyestrain produced by the glasses...
Tradition is that chorus girls get mink coats the same way minks do. But Rosemary Williamson, a curvaceous and languorous brunette, who helped take the eyestrain out of such Broadway hits as Peep Show and As the Girls Go, dropped by the office of Manhattan District Attorney Frank Hogan one day last week to deny icily that this is true...
Under Dr. Smythe's supervision, 18 hardy viewers sat in relays in a Manhattan hotel room watching, for an entire week, all the shows telecast on seven TV sets tuned to each of the New York channels. Out of the seven-day ordeal, the viewers got 1) eyestrain, 2) recurrent headaches, 3) a low opinion of commercial television. Some of their findings...
...movies, seen this week (the Gene Autry Show, CBS-TV, Sun. 7 p.m., E.D.T.), offers nothing new in plot or characterization. Titled Head for Texas, it tells a story of how a good ranch boss foils some bad cattle rustlers. Its novelty is its attempt to relieve the eyestrain of horse-opera addicts...
...hefty predecessors, jumbo-size New Directions XI is a literary junk shop where table after table full of crusty, dusty, doggedly experimental writing will discourage all but the hardiest. But those who do not mind shopping hard for their literary fare will stumble on a few things worth the eyestrain...