Word: grand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eisenstein's plans for the movie were as grand as the scale on which he worked. Intellectually, then, it is a tough movie. The events of the ten days in which Kerensky's Provisional Government was overthrown by the Bolsheviks are subordinated to Eisenstein's own response to them: the pattern that he makes of the events and the opportunities he sees in them for experiments in film technique. Since the pattern is diffuse and the opportunities unlimited, it is not an easy movie and it does not always "entertain." The movie is no easier to follow for the cuts...
Last week Congressman Lane was preparing for a fight in the House Ways and Means Committee against the Organization for Trade Cooperation (he believed OTC would reduce tariffs, hurt his textile worker constituents) when he got some bad news. In Boston a federal grand jury indicted him on three counts of evading $38,542 in income taxes. In 1949, according to the indictment, Congressman Lane declared, on a joint return with his wife, an income of $14,311 when his actual income was $57,497; in 1950 he declared $20,991 when his actual income...
...curtain of Manhattan's City Center opened on a ballet set-a large, white Chopin medallion suspended like a full moon against velvety blackness- but the first figure the audience saw, a hefty man in swallowtail coat, headed across the stage to play Chopin on a grand piano. Yet it was a ballet after all, a new one called The Concert. Made up of Choreographer Jerome (Peter Pan) Robbins' irreverent ideas of what might go on in a listener's wandering mind during a musical evening, it turned out to be the funniest farce in a blue...
...block-square, million-dollar Shoppers Market in Santa Monica, Calif, was having its grand opening. Behind the butcher counter stood Actor Ernest Borgnine, a smile on his face and a meat cleaver in his hand. The man who proved, in Marty, that butchers are nice people, was being spurred on by throngs of movie fans and pressagents and a group of scantily clad models with placards announcing, "I Love Marty." Reporters, newsreel cameramen and photographers were on hand, and two representatives of the Santa Monica Bay District Meatcutters Union, Local 587 (the Amalgamated Meatcutters and Butcher Workmen of North America...
Whenever the Pudding has what its producers consider a small hit, it will enthusiastically hit the road on all sorts of grand tours. In 1913, "Panamania" was good enough to merit such a junket and the Pudding sent it off on an ambitious tour covering practically every state west of the Rockies. A newspaper review told of the show's termination in Chicago...