Word: flashier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They can afford to kill off Peter Lorre in the first fifteen minutes of Casablanca. That's how good it is. Ten years of flashier and more expensive movies leave this picture still on top. It is tough, cynical, sentimental, and maudlin, a slick movie about refugees and black marketers that somehow is better for its slickness...
Depreciation of the Pith Helmet. The rubber boom and less spectacular booms in tin and pepper have bounced salaries and wages all along the line. The rich are spending their money on bigger and flashier cars (a Rolls-Royce is no rarity...
...general publishing community. It is important both in volume of business and in the number of titles issued annually. Still more significant, the Press produces titles of quality, value, and influence in a coat-ridden field where commectal publishers often push aside good books for works of a flashier nature and greater sales potential...