Word: kliegs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Astoria. One night, he drove up to Columbia University; at this shrine of mass education (current enrollment: 29,200), President Dwight D. Eisenhower conferred an honorary doctorate of laws on the Cambridge graduate, some 90% of whose countrymen cannot read or write. As newsmen worked over Nehru in a klieg-lit, stifling hot little room, Eisenhower nervously chewed his mortarboard, muttered: "This is a terrible way to treat a friend." By the time the press was through with Columbia's newest doctor-who wore a black wool achkan under his academic gown-Nehru was as wilted...
With varying degrees of exasperation and bitterness, the Navy's angry men pounded away last week at an astonishing variety of targets-the atomic bomb, the Air Force, strategic bombing, the National Defense Department, the basic U.S. war plan. In the klieg-lighted clamor of the House Armed Services Committee room, officer after officer took the stand. Some fired off a few wild shots...
...took us 15 years of living there to find out . . . Miles of beaches, hundreds of klieg lights, cases of suntan lotion . . . and avocados in the front yard...
There the movie's resemblance to Dostoevsky ends. The rich, exuberant flow of dialogue, incident and atmosphere characteristic of the Russian master has been choked to a pedestrian trickle. Dostoevsky's brilliant insights into the tortured motives and emotions of his lovers have paled into klieg-lighted stereotypes. Much of the time Peck and Miss Gardner act as if they had been stranded at a sedate costume party. In other scenes, when they try for a truly Slavic intensity, they seem to be acting out a burlesque on the whole school of Russian novelists. A few supporting players...
Brock Pemberton, veteran producer of Broadway plays-Kiss the Boys Goodbye (1938), Harvey (1944)-stepped before the klieg lights for a Hollywood screen test. "I don't expect anything will come of it," he grumbled afterwards. "I just did it for the experience ... I imagine that my investment of some $5 for renting [a costume] will be wasted...