Word: fodder
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Hollywood, after years of profitably cranking out fodder to feed TV's terrible tapeworm, has almost relegated the theatrical film- once its 18-carat bread and butter-to the limbo of relics along with the two-reel comedy and the Mighty Wurlitzer. Last week filmdom's labor leaders, in an effort to lock the studio door after the horse opera had gone, enlisted the aid of the House Subcommittee on the Impact of Imports and Exports on American Employment to do something about the problem of "runaways"-films made overseas by U.S. companies. The hard fact...
...most of which sound like the State Radio Orchestra and Chorus of Byelorussia backed up by the entire population of Byelorussia. The songs are uniformly translated to fit into the following matrix: "My love is in the tavern drinking (national beverage)/The flocks are on the hillside eating (national fodder)/Come away with me, my love for your eyes are like (national cliche)/Come and we will (international cliche...
Khrushchev had a point-of sorts. There are indeed differences among the U.S., Britain, France and West Germany. They have been there for years, ruffling the sensitivities of statesmen and furnishing fodder for cartoonists. In the past they have concerned contributions to NATO, or arguments over colonialism or summitry or economic cooperation. But the alliance has stood for quite a while, and it remains steadfast. Today, the differences center on the problem of Germany and negotiations over Berlin...
...family never had an animal menace like this, said British Farmer Benjamin Banham, whose forebears have been tilling the soil near Great Yarmouth for 500 years. "Last fall they cleared out seven acres of my kale and 40 tons of swede [a kind of turnip grown for cattle fodder]." In Burgh Castle, after trapping 460 of the same varments that ate Banham's kale, Farmer John Berry was near despair: "If they carry on the way they do," said he, "they'll be master of the land in three years...
...couldn't help wondering whether Mrs. Kerr created the wife in her own image. Miss Bel Geddes portrays a wisecracking terror, who is forever turning innocent remarks into fodder for her machine-gun bursts. She sounds about the way you'd expect Jean Kerr to be. Old Walter must have a hell of a time...