Word: forbidden
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Forbidden Planet. For earthlings with that end-of-winter feeling: spring cruise at speed of light to Altair-4-small, out-of-the-way planet, two moons, green sky, pink sand, personal robot service. Caution: pack an atomic weapon. Occasional monsters (TIME, April...
Usually, on these twenty-first century trips to distant planets, there is one guy who can account for everything up to a certain point. Then when even he becomes amazed the picture ends. "I don't believe it," he mutters, "it must be some strange force, probably..."On the Forbidden Planet, this character is Walter Pidgeon (Dr. Morbius), but the reason he, too, succumbs to fantasy is an understandable one: he simply cannot believe any Freudian theory...
...moons, and the beautiful craggy countryside. In the big love affair between the space ship's captain and the scientis's daughter, Anne Francis is successfully taught the secret of the Earth people's popularity: they kiss well. Thus the picture again proves the tale of outer space: the forbidden planet is Hollywood...
...Forbidden Planet (M-G-M). In recent years, though many a Thing has landed on the movie screen, the Space it came from has always, all too obviously, been located between a scriptwriter's ears; and the science in the fiction has generally been of a sophomore sort that gives a loud wolf-whistle at the curvature of the universe. In this nifty interstellar meller, however, the gadgets are so much more glamorous than any girl could be that in many scenes the heroine is technologically unemployed. The special effects should convince any wavering space cadet that...
...sorting clerk whose chief function is to refer patients to staff specialists. Restrictions on qualified generalists are strictest in large Eastern cities and include a complete shut-out in most teaching hospitals, limitation in others to minor surgery, nonoperative obstetrics, routine medical care. In Baltimore hospitals G.P.s are forbidden even to stitch a small cut or open an abscess in the emergency room. One hospital in Pittsburgh requires that the chief of obstetrics grant a G.P. official permission to use outlet forceps in a delivery. Twenty-three New York State hospital staffs are off limits to generalists...