Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Within days of Parliament's action, construction began in the heart of Kingston on a conspicuous compound containing both trial chambers and prison cells. With its guard towers and barbed-wire fences painted bloodred, the "rehabilitation center" looks like a Hollywood back-lot version of a World War II concentration camp. Some Kingston residents even refer to it as "Stalag...
...Chatfield has devised an adapter system that enables the electron-microscope user to get three-dimensional images. His optical stereo, which he developed at a cost of only $25,000-less than the price of a typical electron-microscope-operates on an ingenious yet simple principle reminiscent of Hollywood's experiments with 3-D movies in the 1950s...
Died. Miriam Young, 62, novelist (Heaven Faces West) and children's book writer whose bestselling autobiography about life with her vaudevillian parents (Mother Wore Tights) was turned into one of Hollywood's most extravagant movie musicals of the 1940s; of cancer; in Lake Katonah...
...that Actress Debbie Reynolds, 42, romancing on the screen with the ever confident, debonair Warren Beatty, 37? Not quite. The Debbie Reynolds look-alike in the forthcoming movie Shampoo is Carrie Fisher, daughter of Debbie and Crooner Eddie Fisher. Like Mom, Carrie is starting her Hollywood career at age 17. Unlike the star of such '50s films as Tammy and the Bachelor, Carrie is shunning the girl-next-door image with some four-letter dialogue. "We have the same facial flesh," says Carrie of her resemblance to mother. "Cute. Round and cute. I think the reason they wanted...
Lone Star sippin' and skinny dippin' 'n'steel guitars 'n'stars Are just as good as Hollywood And them boogie woogie bars...