Word: jump
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fields-South America, Europe, Asia-look green to U.S. moviemakers. But there are many fences to jump. One of the highest: the language barrier. Subtitles are only half an answer. Much of the potential audience is illiterate. Dubbing in a translator's voice for the actor's is not much better. The actor's lips say one thing, another comes...
There she remembers the huge Russian always willing to jump into a kazachok; the lovely, shy Florian doing her belly-dances; Henry, the manager, keeping the peace "by telling everyone in the room they were right"; or the little singer, Chiffon, crooning before an old piano "that drove the orchestra to desperation." And the beautiful-eyed Fernande, who "could make more noise by herself than a banquet...
Average prices per man in the Houses will rise from $130 to $144 while in the Yard they will jump from $119 to $124. For doubled-up suites, $40 per additional man will be added to the room's total rent, which will then be divided equally among its occupants...
...Jumping Professors. Understandably, the astrologers were loath to discuss their boom. Said a Chicago seeress: "If I say anything about business, those professors will jump on us again." But they eagerly claimed that astrology ("the study of life's reactions to planetary vibrations") was a science that should be taught in U.S. colleges. Some stepped right up to write 1946's news stories in advance releases-a practice that was old in 1640, when William Lilly, the "English Merlin" (see cut) fascinated Parliament with his political predictions...
Bill Jackson started it off by tossing the shot a healthy 52 feet, 9 3/4 inches; John Holbrook followed by taking the broad jump, and Harwood's 12-foot boost took first in the pole-vault. A 6-foot, 2-inch high jump by Jim Harrington concluded the field events...