Word: fog
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President planned to make the trip in a DC-6 chartered by the committee (he insisted that the presidential plane Columbine should not be used for traveling to a Republican Party affair), but rain and fog kept him grounded. Instead, he rode in a special train (paid for by the G.O.P.). Missing out on the $100 banquet fare (turtle soup, filet mignon, ice cream, New York State champagne), he dined on the train, then changed into his dinner jacket to face the microphones...
...William S. Richardson of the Oceanographic Institution will fly the new instrument over the iceberg infested Grand Banks in a Navy amphibian. When the radar looks down through the fog and picks up a blip that might be either ice or a boat, he will take its temperature. If it is too cold for a boat, he will report it to the Coast Guard...
...emphasize the occult, the stories are dressed in all the horrors of a Penny-dreadful--fog, train whistles, echoing voices, mist shrouded waters--and it all seems too heavy for the stories to bear. The worst sufferer is a drab little fable with the moral the Beauty Lies in the Heart. With the aid of a spectral Samaritan, Dorothy Fields proves the point by shedding the bags under her eyes when she learns the meaning of love. Duvivier makes the whole thing pretty intense, with the actors expressing utter banalities with deadly seriousness. When the embittered hero, for example, declares...
...narrow streets, yet clean, up-to-date and as comfortable as most cabs in most cities. We still have a few Georgian relics . . . but they are vanishing fast. Some, no doubt, have gone to California where, for the next few years, they may serve to perpetuate a legend (fog, a barrel-organ and a 1921 Unic taxi honking its way through the murk). The remainder are finding their way, rather quickly, to the junkyard...
Fourth Dimension. In Manhattan, John Reynolds sat in a theater engrossed in the realism of a three-dimensional movie showing sea lions splashing in their London Zoo pool, felt a light spray on his face, saw beads of water fog his polarized glasses, got out of his seat and found two boys in a front row shooting water pistols at the audience...