Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strong and unyielding words, Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden last week made the British government's position in Cyprus clear and flat. Without bothering to clothe it in the familiar language of imperialistic idealism, Sir Anthony defined Britain's stake in one word: oil. "Our country's industrial life and that of Western Europe," he told a Tory Party audience in Norwich, "depend today, and must depend for many years, on oil supplies from the Middle East. If ever our oil resources were imperiled, we should be compelled to defend them. The facilities we need in Cyprus...
SecurityMeasures.Gangling,sharp-nosed Reporter Wally Turner, 35, and his partner, thick-spectacled Bill Lambert, 36, are such familiar prowlers along Portland's corrupt trails that the underworld knows them as "Fishface and Bugeyes." The latest trail took them over thousands of feet of magnetic tape-70 hours of eavesdropped conversation-supplied by Underworld Kingpin James ("Big Jim") Elkins, an ex-convict who bankrolls Portland gambling and after-hours drinking joints...
...Littlest Revue wound up the off-Broadway Phoenix Theatre's season with festive intentions but pretty limp results. With but eight people in the cast, it is an intimate revue with a vengeance; and with its faces so quickly familiar and its fandangos so modestly scaled, it stands in urgent need of witty sketches and catchy tunes. But the wit is uncomfortably sporadic and Vernon Duke's show tunes sound remarkably alike. Best thing in the revue is Comedienne Charlotte Rae, who is herself at her best in a pair of screwy madrigal numbers. There...
...plot, worked up by Kubrick from a novel (Clean Break) by Lionel White, tells the familiar story of a stickup. Led by an ex-convict (Sterling Hayden), six men put the heist on a race track, but even though the tote is $2,000,000, the script fixes things so that crime does not pay. Nevertheless, the plot produces a gut-clenching suspense and plenty of surprises -pulled out of the hat alive and kicking...
Beyond a few superficial pleasantries, the noncoms processing the new troops at Fort Burnside make the familiar old G.I. sounds : "You men can make it easy on yourselves or hard on yourselves, and I don't particularly care which, because I can play it both ways ... if you screw up around here, your behinds will be grass and I will be the lawnmower...