Word: kliegs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jewelry and sequins blaze as distractingly as small klieg lights. Large hats block the best efforts of studio electricians. Patent leather shoes and satin dresses have a more unattractive glow than a shiny nose...
...typical American town, a wholesome little community populated by "just folks": a lot of them better-than-average-looking, to be sure, but hardworking, sober, law-abiding, family-loving. This picture of the town, while true as far as it goes, glosses over the fact that under the klieg-lit, high-pressure, high-paid strains peculiar to Hollywood, some of its supertense citizens sometimes volatilize and take to drink, adultery or dope. The movie industry, beset last week on every side by box-office woes, heckling from Washington and quotas from Britain, trembled to think that the old bogey...
...Whittaker Chambers, the Klieg-lit and politically unstable, has aroused my interest. I want to be able to trim ship while reading TIME so that I can feel I'm not being...
Most popular of the contestants swaying among the klieg-lighted diners was pert Jacqueline Donny of France, displaying a smartly cut bathing suit and a perfectly round navel. When the votes were in, Miss France was provisional winner. Observed Miss America '46, putting away her glasses: "Miss France won by a navel...
...Foreign Affairs Committee clamped a ban on newsreels, television and radio record-making during future hearings on ERP. Its announced reason: too much klieg lighting, noise and confusion. The first witness to be affected by the ban this week: Henry Wallace...