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...then the camera work goes amiss when photographer Joseph Martin covers his lens with a black mist. He has presented at least half the film in almost complete darkness, and at times the scene could as well be a parody of Dante's Inferno. The music too does not seem to fit the action in some places, a little too blaring when Captain Phoebus captures Quasimodo, a little too violiny when Esmeralda prays to the Virgin Mary...

Author: By E. H. Harvey, | Title: The Hunchback of Notre Dame | 12/16/1953 | See Source »

What made Bridges' unionists tighten up was a crowd of a thousand angry A.F.L. men marching through the mist toward Pier 39. They were armed with two-by-fours, baseball bats wrapped in newspaper and lengths of chain. As they approached the pier, the shout went up: "Let's push those goddam Commies off the wharf! Let's get our men off the ship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Big Mike & the Mobs | 12/14/1953 | See Source »

...mother of three grown daughters. Her entry was Design for Security, a triangular construction of children clinging together, surrounded by a cloud of light yellows and reds. Explained Artist Engelhard, who has been painting since 1899: "I think it was just a feeling of colors going off into a mist with the children sort of bewildered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Ladies' Day | 11/30/1953 | See Source »

There was even a verse about him; it showed how the '20s felt about Earl Sande, even if it taught a lot of people to mispronounce the name (rhymes with grand). Wrote Columnist Damon Runyon with a Broadway mist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: In the Third at Belmont | 10/12/1953 | See Source »

...they can about the tense last moments of an instrument approach to a socked-in airfield. Today's blind-flying planes have intricate instruments to help them navigate (TIME, June 15). But only the most accurate observations can tell pilots when it is safe to grope through mist toward the ground. In their dangerous flights over Long Island, Rube Snodgrass and his crew, measuring those last few feet of weather, are setting new standards for tricky, foul-weather landings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Weather Measure | 9/7/1953 | See Source »

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