Word: forli
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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For the old reliables there are also new wrinkles, e.g., toy guns this year have built-in whine and ricochet sounds. For kids who have almost everything, Dallas' Neiman-Marcus has a $2,200 gas-engine-powered passenger train.
The 400 Blows (Zenith International). A small boy stands at the bottom of a giant tin can, the centrifuge in an amusement park. As the can begins to spin, the centrifugal force moves him to the outer walls. Faster and faster it goes. Soon the boy can move neither backward...
The child in the centrifuge stands for modern man in the society he has made. This is the metaphor at the core of this cruel, powerful picture from France, in which the New Wave of cinematic creation matches the high-water mark established by Black Orpheus (TIME, Nov. 16). Like...
The boy learns early to "defend" himself, as the French say. Naturally independent, he soon becomes a proficient liar, steals from his mother's purse, cheats in class, plays hooky. Finally the boy decides to "faire les quatre cents coups" (go for broke). He runs away from home, and...
Married. David Field Beatty, 2nd Earl Beatty, 54, greying playboy son of Britain's World War I Grand Fleet commander, grandson of Chicago's Merchant Prince Marshall Field; and Diane Kirk, 18, London model; he for the fourth time, she for the first, in Midhurst, England.