Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attempt to give a topical horror story broad human appeal, the show at worst falls at times into cliché; it does not start with it. Distinguished merit West Side Story lacks; but its distinguishing merit, its putting choreography foremost, may prove a milestone in musical-drama history...
...minority. Thus when two unsponsored NBC shows landed quietly in the ghetto this week, it was not surprising that both turned out to be far more impressive than the season's new commercial fare (see below). Wisdom, a filmed series of interviews with "the world's foremost seminal doers and thinkers," and Look Here!, a live, remote interview show with public figures, proved again that the most effective TV comes straight from life...
...industrial arts, dating back to 1907. This year 23 countries are participating, and a total turnout of 300,000 visitors is expected. There is plenty to see: Japanese porcelain. Scandinavian furniture, a geodesic dome designed by the U.S.'s R. Buckminster Fuller. But the show's foremost attraction by far, is a one-man pavilion celebrating the effervescent genius of Milan's own Gio Ponti...
...chosen to solve the problem was Gian Lorenzo Bernini, foremost sculptor of his day, who in 1655 began erecting his immense colonnades-inspired, so it was said, by the vision of a form that would appear as a mighty archangel, with outspread, welcoming arms coming out of the body of the church. To round out his grand plan, Bernini placed 140 statues of saints, each 12 ft. in height, around the rim. With its two fountains, each 45 ft. high, and its center fixed by the massive, 320-ton obelisk that Emperor Caligula had brought from Heliopolis. the finished square...
...present rate of increase of population there will be standing room only in the world by the year 5000," one of Britian's foremost geographers told a Harvard Summer School audience Tuesday night...