Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...movie location in Spain, Italy's voluptuous Cinemactress Sophia Loren, unkempt and grimy, looked more appealing as a child of the earth than in more familiar rig as a child of luxury. While the cameras whirred, Sophia, in the role of a hell-for-dirt girl guerrilla, had just helped a motley band of actors drag a 3-ton artillery piece through rain and a morass of real...
...aflame with the thought of freedom. Next day Otto Nuschke was scorched by the flame. "Help us, Brother Nuschke," someone cried, "so that we may speak freely in our churches!" Paunchy old Otto Nuschke ascended the speaker's stand, and his grey Vandyke waggled as he launched into familiar appeals for the banning of atomic weapons, declared that the "materialistic" state was actually trying to help the churches. But no one was listening. As the hostile hubbub in the hall increased, a voice called out: "You have stabbed the church in the back, Brother Nuschke...
...Edward Kennedy Ellington, jazzman, composer, and beyond question one of America's topflight musicians, is a magic name to two generations of Americans. His Mood Indigo, Sophisticated Lady, Solitude, and countless other dreamy tunes have become as familiar as any other songs since Stephen Foster. As jazz composer he is beyond categorizing-there is hardly a musician in the field who has not been influenced by the Ellington style. His style contains the succinctness of concert music and the excitement of jazz. His revival comes at a time when most bandleaders who thrived in the golden...
...next to the isolated hacienda belonging to Trevor Howard and two Dutch cronies. Howard says he is an archaeologist but, if so, why are the grounds patrolled by man-eating dogs? And why has Widmark's wrecked plane disappeared? And why do Howard and his pals look so familiar...
...compile its cost-of-living index. Three years later, by BLS "decree," automatic laundry service and biscuit mix also became necessities. It is easily conceivable that in time the same road will be taken by air conditioning, electric blankets, power steering, and a thousand other amenities. This is the familiar old American process of raising the standard of living...