Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Union officials, reportedly dissatisfied with the new University offer, will refer the ten-cent raise to its membership on Monday night. Earlier, the Union local voted unanimously to strike unless it received a ten per cent pay hike...
BIGGEST CAR DEAL in history will be closed by Hertz Corp. and local affiliates. For $33 million, nation's biggest auto rental outfit will buy 15,600 new 1957 models, 75% of them sedans (Chevrolets, Fords, Plymouths, Oldsmobiles, Buicks, Cadillacs), the rest convertibles, sports cars (probably Thunderbirds) and station wagons...
...kind of idea that makes him unpopular with the local Army general, the state governor and the boys in the corner saloon, who begin calling him an "Indian lover." Meanwhile, back on the reservation, black-eyed Tianay (Anne Bancroft), a squaw who is "much woman," moves in on Audie with the conviction that he is "much man." Rather stuffily, Audie refuses to prove it in their adobe cottage, explaining that he is already "pledged," and that at best a white man can handle only one wife at a time. But he does prove, in 88 minutes flat, that a white...
...wonder. Every character in Peyton Place, from the gallused bench-sitters on Elm Street to the assured local mill owner, has a lurid history that John O'Hara's characters might envy. Novelist Metalious suggests that sex is never long out of the town's mind; anyway, it seldom is out of hers. Her hero (strangely enough a schoolteacher with a Greek name) courts the local widow with such niceties as "a stunning blow across the mouth with the back of his hand." And her love scenes are as explicit as love scenes can get without...
...when Authoress Metalious is not all flustered by sex, she captures a real sense of the tempo, texture and tensions in the social anatomy of a small town. Her ear for local speech is unflinching down to the last four-letter word, and her characters have a sort of rawboned vitality that may produce low animal moans in many a critic's throat...