Word: hells
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...toughest demands: a neatly organized plot, pitiless closeups and split-second scene switching from one effective set to another. But in the end it foundered on the debatable thesis that Success is mostly a matter of being able to tell the boss to go to hell...
...producers and directors aware of complaint trends and of requests by such groups as the American Foundation for the Blind, e.g., don't use cliches like "blind-drunk" and "blind as a bat." But he tries to resist most demands by touchy viewers, even risks letting "damn" or "hell" stay in a script if it seems unforced. "If we don't reflect the real world around us," he says, "radio and TV are going to be awfully dull, and competitively, we'll get clobbered...
Rain scraps this brand of opiated logic in favor of cold-turkey realism. The movie zeroes in on a nightmare that is real in tens of thousands of U.S. homes. This particular private hell is an apartment in a big Manhattan housing project. Don Murray is a jobless Korean veteran who, through some mischance of war, becomes addicted to morphine while under treatment in an Army hospital. Unaware that he is hooked, his pregnant wife (Eva Marie Saint) cannot fathom his jagged nerves, his remoteness, his all-night disappearances. Neither can his obtuse bartender father (Lloyd Nolan). But Murray...
...expansion, few economists are seriously worried that the present capital shortage will harm the free world's economy over the long run. Most consider it an inevitable and, to some extent, desirable byproduct of worldwide prosperity. In many nations, the shortage of money acts as a brake on hell-for-leather expansion programs that threaten to burst their economic seams. Often the general effect is to create a natural rationing system based on the laws of supply and demand, which tends to channel capital away from marginal projects into more important-and often more profitable-enterprises...
...hell with the big picture," said Toronto Globe and Mail Reporter William Kinmond when he crossed into Red China last May. Instead, hardboiled, inquisitive Bill Kinmond, 42, set out to report on the country in the down-to-earth fashion in which he regularly covers the Ontario legislature. By last week, when Reporter Kinmond returned to Hong Kong, his first 25 small-picture stories in the Globe and Mail (which plans to run ten more) added up to the broadest, most fact-packed portrait of China to come out of the mainland since the Communists took over...