Word: leans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the National Collegiate Athletic Association voted (161 to 7) to ration football telecasts this fall, it proposed a diet of one game a week for each television area. This lean fare, the N.C.A.A. hoped, would get the football public out of its armchair and back into the stands again. But last week, tempted by an offer of some $250,000 from ABC for the right to televise its eight home games, the University of Pennsylvania plunked the public back in its armchair by announcing it intended to defy the N.C.A.A. ruling...
Oliver Twist. Director David (Great Expectations) Lean's brilliant adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel; with Alec Guinness, John Howard Davies, Robert Newton (TIME...
...lean, black-bearded man of 49, Adams has roamed the mountain country most of his life. The pioneer U.S. Photographer Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946) strongly influenced his art, helped make it known. Like Stieglitz, Adams is a brilliant teacher and technician who believes that photography can be as pure an art form as any other. But, says he, "Creation within the strict limitations of the medium is the basic law of pure photography as in all the other arts...
...Director Frank Tuttle (College Holiday), a lean, greying oldtimer, who came all the way from Vienna, where he has plied his trade since 1949. Tuttle was only too happy to unburden his conscience. He had been a Communist, all right, from 1937 till 1947-when the C.P. line got to sounding too violent for his taste. Witness Tuttle ticked off a long list of his ex-party comrades, most of whom had been brought to the committee's attention by earlier witnesses. "There is a traditional dislike among Americans for informers," he admitted. But, said Tuttle, "a ruthless aggression...
Oliver Twist. Director David (Great Expectations) Lean's brilliant adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel (TIME...