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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Quicksilver or Bones. For 45 days before the festival this year, 400 carpenters worked three shifts around the clock to build the carts, each 45 ft. high and 35 ft. wide. (After each year's ceremony, the carts are torn down and the lumber sold to contractors.) The deities themselves take two weeks of preparation. First they are taken from their thrones to the holy bathing pavilion and bathed with scented water from 108 pitchers. Then they are repainted and dressed for their ride...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Juggernaut | 7/20/1959 | See Source »

...film is not so much a motion picture as a photographed opera. Just to make sure the customers get the point, Vienna-born Director Otto Preminger has directed most of it as though it were a Bayreuth production of Gōtterdāmmerung, Choruses march and countermarch; actors lumber woodenly about the stage, obviously counting their steps, and then suddenly take up a stance and break into song. And for some strange, wrong reason -perhaps to give the show an elevated, operatic tone-the actors speak in precise, cultivated accents that are miles away from the Negro slums...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 6, 1959 | 7/6/1959 | See Source »

...what they went through in the war, or what, but they aren't what they ought to be." Minsky's Burlesque Baedeker in brief: ¶Germany-"The girls are awful; there's no taste to their numbers. They just strip. All those great big girls lumber around like cows." ¶Italy-"I don't know why, but they import all their strippers. Italian girls are only interested in the movies. It's like Hollywood 15 years ago; every girl is a starlet. I didn't meet one who didn't claim to have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BURLESQUE: Baedeker | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

Tenebrous. A calm champion-the first boy to win since 1954-pudgy, pink-cheeked Joel slung an arm around tearful Bobby and quietly allowed that his only real puzzler had been intitule in an early round. Joel came equipped to win. The son of a lumber salesman, he reads four or five books a week, is starting Darwin's Origin of Species. And his spelling coach at Denver's Byers Junior High School is Teacher Ted Glim, producer of a co-champion two years ago, who shuns rote memorization. Glim starts with accurate pronunciation. "Then we go thoroughly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Spellbound | 6/22/1959 | See Source »

...just an ordinary, well-adjusted gag writer. He admits having surrounded his former Hollywood home with a steel Cyclone fence and forbidding signs saying "Northridge Lion Farm," but he denies shooting at low-flying aircraft. He also admits the story about how he loaded up his swimming pool with lumber, but only, he explains with Douglassy logic, to help the rabbits and gophers that might fall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Toynbee Doob's Pal | 6/15/1959 | See Source »

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