Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cheerleaders start today recruiting a tumbling team to help them continue their war on Stadium indifference next fall...
...films last week. Private financing had tightened up, even for Korda and Rank. At least 1,000 employees had been laid off in recent months, and another 500 had warning notices that they might be sacked soon. Last week heads of three big movie unions urged the government to help stem the firings and to grant the producers' demand for a rebate on its 40% admissions...
Hopefully, the government pushed its )ill to set up a Film Finance Corporation with $20 million to help the ailing industry back on its feet over the next five years. But nobody in the industry thought hat the government fund could work a cure by itself; they hoped it would lure private capital back into the films. And he most enlightened knew that in any event the bankers would first want the moviemakers to mend their extravagant ways...
Flaxy Martin (Warner) is a chain reaction of horror and violence. A gullible young lawyer (Zachary Scott) is in love with a double-crossing blonde (Virginia Mayo). He imagines that she is going to help him break away from his job as legal chore boy for a gang of hoodlums; instead, she helps frame him for murder. When he manages to escape from the guard who is carting him off to prison, the gang's trigger man catches up with him. This leads to the most gruesome of the movie's assortment of gruesome scenes: Scott...
Tickle, Tickle. Koestler wants to show what forces cause human beings to think, to create and to destroy. As a "back door" into this problem, he begins by examining the forces that make men laugh. He shows, with the help of a number of geometric diagrams and a lot of peeking into the plumbing of "the sympathico-adrenal system," that laughter is a form of self-assertion. This section of the book also notes some pedagogical experiments in what Koestler gravely calls "the functioning of the original squirm reflex"-a phenomenon further documented in his book by laboratory experiments...