Word: kliegs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dingy Tokyo office, Japan's first postwar deal in foreign trade was ceremoniously consummated last week. While klieg lights glared and cameras whirred, S. A. Stolaroff, vice president of New Orleans' United China & Glass Co., signed up for $62,000 worth of chinaware from several small Japanese companies...
More than 1,200 sweating spectators had squeezed into the humid, marble-walled caucus room of the Senate Office Building. Before them klieg lights glared; six movie cameras were trained on one vacant chair. Michigan's Senator Homer Ferguson, a man with a reputation as a prosecutor, stood behind a little forest of microphones and an underbrush of wires, and kept his eyes trained on the main door...
...klieg-lighted stage, Vice Admiral R. M. Griffin, commander of U.S. Naval Forces in the Far East, began the drawing. Behind him stood naval representatives of the other occupation powers, a British and a Chinese captain, a Russian rear admiral. "Lot number one," called Admiral Griffin in a crisp, clear voice. It fell to the British...
...Banned, Not Played. He made one speech, to the International Congress of Composers, but anyone who expected to hear new theories or techniques was disappointed. Blinking myopically under the klieg lights, he read a dull account of the bureaucratic organization of Soviet music, not once mentioning himself. At the end, someone asked: "Is your opera Lady Macbeth of Mzensk banned in Russia?" Said Shostakovich quietly: "It is not banned-it is simply not played." There was an embarrassed silence; considering the blast directed at Lady Macbeth by Soviet ideologists eleven years ago ("Screaming, neurotic music"), it was hardly a nice...
...lonely widow of her dead lusband. Though The Dark Wood has its cold-blooded villain and villainess, most of the characters are treated as normal, unheroic people of the 20th Century -with the difference that their faces seem always to turn, like flowers to the sun, toward the klieg lights of Hollywood...