Word: fair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whether "relaxation," "distensione" or the "Spirit of Geneva," it was a fascinating puzzle. How real was it? How hopeful? How dangerous? Would the Russians at the (foreign ministers) Geneva meeting in October make actual concessions to match some of the fair words said at Geneva in July? Did the warm - and slightly feverish - welcome to a group of visiting Russian farmers mean that the U.S. muscles ached with the strain of keeping the nation's guard up? Were certain Europeans, so lately worried about U.S. "intransigence." unjustified in shaking warning heads over the perils of what they considered...
...Always Fair Weather (M-G-M), despite its inclement title, is a sunny example of a Hollywood rarity-a song-and-dance movie with enough plot to justify its dialogue and enough needling satire to make some points. Fair Weather's good fellows who get together are Gene Kelly (also, with Stanley Donen, the film's co-director and co-dancemaster), Dan Dailey and feather-footed Michael Kidd, the dancer and choreographer, in his first film role. Returning to the U.S. when World War II ends, the three army pals, mutually jittery about the prospects of renewed civilian...
...revolts against her prospective guest of the evening, a Bronx crackpot whose claim to fame is his model of the Taj Mahal, constructed in 16 years with nothing but chewing-gum wrappers. The three ex-G.I.s are unwittingly shanghaied as substitutes for the crackpot, and from there on, Fair Weather breezes on to a stormy climax-a brawl between the good fellows and the bad fight fixers, in full view of 60 million televiewers...
...superb dancing, inventive musical numbers, witty spoofery of TV's overstuffed brass and mawkish product-hawking of such goodies as H 2 O Cola, as well as its spirited jabs and gibes at Madison Square Garden's crooks and pug-ugly environs, Fair Weather rates as one of the top contenders for the year's lightweight title...
Atoms in the Moonlight. Not only was Westinghouse loaded with experience and ready with order blanks, but, under the sure hand of Westinghouse International's Sales Manager Jose de Cubas, it also crashed the Geneva market with a sales technique that staggered European buyers. At the trade fair, Westinghouse had a small booth with a working model of its Shippingport reactor, but it had long since decided not to depend entirely on mechanical exhibits. Instead, the company took over the entire first floor of the fashionable Genevoise restaurant for the duration of the conference, so industrialists, scientists and newsmen...