Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Una O'Connor, 78, Abbey-trained Irish actress who became one of the most familiar slaveys of stage and screen (Cavalcade, Witness for the Prosecution); in Manhattan...
...wove popular tunes of their day into their masses. Most people in England, he argues, are responsive only to the kind of music purveyed on the mass-consumption mediums. What better way to enliven the average congregation's interest in the service than to greet it with the familiar, readily intelligible musical vernacular...
...damp midday gloom of London's worst fog in seven years, prostitutes were dimly visible as they patrolled their familiar stations in Soho, Piccadilly and Paddington. The chilling smog also seeped through tightly closed windows into the House of Commons, where Home Secretary R. A. ("Rab") Butler was opening the second reading of the Street Offences Bill, aimed at clearing those same girls off the sidewalks of London...
...beauty of Blake Edwards' direction is that it restores to these familiar jokes something of their first fine fervor and surprise. The man obviously loves his material, and he has fired the players with something of his own excitement. Even bored old Keenan Wynn is back at his best. Cast as a great big horrible actors' agent. Actor Wynn slinks about the screen looking like an absurdly prosperous tapir in dark glasses. But when a terrified female pressagent informs him that his big star is pregnant, Wynn reduces his face to a heap of malevolent hamburger, and produces...
...thumb. Another junior epic: the familiar Grimm tale, tastefully refurbished...