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...when jetliners will be sweeping across the continent at better than 500 m.p.h., contracted with Raytheon Manufacturing Co. for $5,000,000 worth of long-range radars for 15 major Canadian airports from Moncton, N.B. to Vancouver. When the system is in operation in 1958, it will keep the headlong jets from 1) treading on each other's heels, 2) overrunning the slower, propeller-driven craft...
Barlach summed up his disgust with the first World War with his famed Avenger, whose headlong, sword-slashing figure was later to arouse Adolf Hitler's wrath. For a group of 16 figures commissioned for the Gothic niches of Liibeck...
...Louella to near-perfection, catching the whining needle of the Parsonian voice and delivering ex cathedra pronouncements on Louella's likes (dancing, pretty clothes, dogs, young people, food and Hollywood) and dislikes (being called "Lolly," being lied to about stories, being doublecrossed by news sources). Lolly's headlong pursuit of trivia was highlighted by interviews with a passel of film folk, enabling Climax! to boast that 31 Hollywood stars-were in the cast of characters. The smaller audience that viewed Caesar and Cleopatra may well have been a more valuable, intelligent and perceptive group than the larger...
...Carlo's bequest ran headlong into an old Italian law forbidding "acts of profanation and mutilation" of corpses within 24 hours after death. It is best to remove corneas within five hours, so Italians had to rely on bootlegged corneas, hastily and furtively filched from the recently dead. But Don Carlo had made himself so beloved that no public official cared to flout his final will. The corneas were promptly removed, and Surgeon Galeazzi grafted one on Angelo's left eye under a glare of publicity as blinding as the operating lights over his head. The other cornea...
...which is not fully appreciated is listed below. With the aid of these lists, the reviewer simply picks the words which seem to fit...or just sound nice. for great movies for fair ones for the horrid sort splendid however insipid thrilling but incredible compelling heart warming absurd captivating headlong insulting uplifting perhaps bosomy driving money-maker for a dollar skilled Oscar candidate a woman in the back row insight for Broadway one eyed cameraman grandeur bad translation not since the Outlaw depth heavy a wounded swan real frantic a lead baloon disturbing stiff go over big in Boston gripping...