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...transgression ... A tremendous cast of thousands recreate a world of passion and fire!" This kind of overheated advertising blurb (for David and Bathsheba), and the kind of movie it is designed to sell, goaded Britain's leftish-highbrow weekly New Statesman and Nation into inviting its readers to invent puffs for other cinematic possibilities in the Old Testament. Last week Hollywood tittered a little self-consciously at the results...
...images might be the electronic organ, sound wave instruments, and that the ability to write music directly onto film might hasten the changes. But, comforting his audience, he said: "We, the composers, are the ones who must give meaning to whatever sonorous images the engineers can invent...
...intellectual frustration over not being able to understand China," he said, "even such men as Harold Stassen are inadvertantely led to invent things." Fairback was referring to Stassen's charge that Owen Lattimore submitted a ten point pro-Communist plan at a 1949 Far Eastern Policy talk...
Agricouture. The Agriculture Department, always ready to help the cotton farmer, showed newsmen some bright print dresses made from cotton fertilizer bags. Dresses from flour bags are old stuff, but the department had worked for months to invent a dye that would withstand the chemical effects of the fertilizer. Purpose: to make cotton fertilizer bags competitive with cheaper paper ones...
Rebel knows enough music to play the piano and sing passably, but she has had to learn or invent a whole new vocabulary while spinning records for hep soldiers. Now a saxophone is always a "goldenrod," playing a trumpet is "scraping the ceiling," drums are "kettles" and violins are "angel music." When not talking about hot & sweet records, Rebel tries to strike a fine balance between sentiment and bathos, because "our purpose isn't to make them lonesome, it's to make them happy...