Word: gorgeous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stumbles on to a mysterious city named Madara, beyond a hidden pass in the Iraouen Mountains. Legionnaire Ladd never had it so good as he does in Madara. He takes the Algerian equivalent of a bubble bath, and is entertained by sword dancers while the emir's gorgeous, red-haired daughter (Arlene Dahl) feeds him sweetmeats by torchlight. Unfortunately, this pleasant state of affairs is menaced by a villain named Omar Ben Khalif (Richard Conte). But once Ladd disposes of Conte, he and Arlene are free to resume their idyllic existence. With its outlandishly fanciful doings, Desert Legion...
...annual event. The TV technicians, bossing the whole show, did a slick job of switching back & forth between Hollywood and Manhattan's International Theater, where a junior edition of the ceremonies was under way. All the cinema queens, some appearing for the first time on TV, looked as gorgeous as they ever did, but a few seemed to miss the careful direction they get in films. The cameras might have been less rigid (the losers in the audience were ignored, even though Bob Hope had advised watching them: "You'll see great understanding, great sportsmanship-great acting...
...orchestral score was exactly what Berlioz devotees had expected--gorgeous splashes of sound mingled with subdued, lyrical melodies. Charles Munch conducted the music of his countryman with deep understanding, although his occasional over-emphasis of inner voices sometimes blotted out the main line. This was especially noticeable in the more vigorous passages of the second movement. But his passionate interpretation of the Love Scene was perfect...
Through the streets they pranced, gorgeous and irrepressible, beating drums, blowing horns, hopping over the open sewers to the tune of the Third Man Theme played by a marching Dixieland band, sometimes dancing a quaint, shuffling samba, some balancing trays of chewing gum and candies on their heads...
...letter to the Washington Post, a reader last week offered the latest explanation of flying saucers: "The sky over the United States is saturated with TV waves from all over the country which get scrambled together . . . Occasionally waves of the same frequency from Gorgeous George's torso get jammed between those from Faye Emerson's neckline and those from the profile of Miss America. When that happens . . . it makes the masculons and the femitrons in the stratosphere fly off on tangents in all directions at high speeds-hence flying saucers. They are just electronic illusions caused...