Word: lifes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...practice, young Europeans recognize their kinship. "Wherever I go in Western Europe," says a Berlin physics student, "I feel as if we all have the same blood group. We don't really have to bother to get acquainted, because there's nothing strange about anybody's life or ways. We can get right down to the fine points, like which drinks, dances and music we prefer...
...kerchiefs on their heads, marched and countermarched in rehearsal for the big parade. All along the parade route, every bit of bare wall was decorated with portraits of Red China's leaders-Mao Tse-tung, Liu Shao-chi and Chou Enlai, in that order-and posters proclaiming that life is getting better and better in the people's paradise...
...presidency, Cafe Filho (TIME, Cover, Dec. 6, 1954) still has nothing-or next to it. His poverty is so impressive that the legislature of his tiny, impoverished home state of Rio Grande do Norte last week voted him a pension of 40,000 cruzeiros ($240) a month for life...
...technical adviser hates me. And they are paying me peanuts. There is a huge power vacuum in this place. A smart guy could just walk in and take over." As for The Great Impostor, the movie that Universal International plans to produce from the bestseller about his life, Demara complained that he got only $4,000 ("I've been had"), and that Tony Curtis was completely miscast in the hero's role. Hollywood, which has always instinctively taken impostors to its heart, loved Demara's bluster. Even stone-faced assistant directors had to smile when the world...
...meant to be. Barbara Rush is Schulberg's "Vassar smarty-pants" scriptwriter down to the last inflection; Dina Merrill plays the conniving heiress with icy charm. The measure of the production's power is its faithfulness to Budd Schulberg's "blueprint of a way of life that was paying dividends in America in the first half of the 20th century...