Word: instants
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...smile includes the romantic tragedy he also knows to be an absurdity, and yet he cannot resist spraying it all with an almost cloying odor of Victor Hugo No. 5. But in an instant Ophuls will catch himself up with a comic grimace. There are vignettes of "le hunting,'' of an English youth on the grand tour, of an aged nymph at a ball, that almost break up the show with guffaws. Not to forget some wickedly amusing lines-e.g., "A woman can refuse jewels she hasn't seen," says the count's petite amie...
...important. General Motors alone has almost 500,000 stockholders, thus a "presold" market for hundreds of thousands of cars. American Tobacco continuously urges its stockholders to "Buy American," hands out cartons of Luckies to its shareholders to pass on to their friends. Borden Corp. tested customer acceptance of its instant coffee and cheese products by first passing them around to stockholders. General Foods puts on fancy spreads of its foods at annual meetings, has a special order department so that stockholders can buy (at cost) $5 gift packages of its products to give away as Christmas presents...
...instant the stern face softened, the tight lips relaxed. Then the stiff-backed British general, regaining his composure, turned on his polished heel and marched towards his airliner at Kuala Lumpur in western Malaya. General Sir Gerald Templer, 55, the man who saved Malaya from the Communists, was on his way home, a job well done...
...producer decided to put him on the air. Misunderstanding the offer, Liberace thought he was being hired for a cooking program (he is a devoted amateur cook and often used to whip up a few cakes for his friends). But his piano and patter act was an instant TV hit. His first sponsor : the Citizens National Trust & Savings Bank of Los Angeles. Explains an admirer: "Banks are always nice to old ladies. So is Liberace...
...pictures Capa liked best were those that told the "whole story," like his photo of an American machine gunner the instant he was killed, or his pictures of half-drowned G.I.s crawling through the heavy surf toward the Normandy beaches. Photographer Capa was no master technician; under battle conditions his lighting and his focus were often faulty. He got his best pictures by knowing and understanding war, and by staying close to it. "If your pictures aren't good," he was fond of saying, "you aren't close enough." The late Brigadier General Teddy Roosevelt once said...