Word: money
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for riches...
...fire-engine-red station wagon a dull grey, happy to have it no longer "an eye-catcher." A strolling policeman no longer accepts the gratuitous glass of iced sherbet from the street vendor, under pain of prosecution for them both if he does. Office "peons" no longer demand "tea money" for leading callers to officials. Karachi's once-flourishing café society stays home, has abandoned the nightclubs to foreigners. As one businessman, who has made $2,000,000 in the past four years, put it, sipping his drink in private in his home: "Why provoke the tiger...
...government as a nation-binding cultural medium in a country that is strung-out, bilingual and unattractive to private networks. It tries to keep down its subsidy ($60 million this year) by selling commercials in a gentlemanly, low-pressure way. With its money, the CBC turns out a satisfactory and varied diet of Canadian-produced live and film programs, plus an occasional spectacular piped in from the U.S. The network's dilemmas are 1) how to be above politics when the government is paying the bills, and 2) how to apportion program production costs between the government...
...eyes follow you at the capitol. That's very important. [Culbert] Olson and [Earl] Warren-the eyes follow you. I said to Booth during the sittings, I said, 'Mr. Booth, please, put the eyes like Earl Warren's. I'll give you the money to go to Sacramento to see Warren's eyes!'" The esthetic quarrel will be resolved with Booth collecting his money for a canvas probably destined for indefinite storage in the basement of San Francisco's Palace of the Legion of Honor. Cried Knight's wife Virginia: "Goodie looks...
From an artistic point of view, the picture is exceptional. Words are used as if they cost money. Much of the story is told through the camera lens by hands, lips, eyes, gestures. The film could easily have been sensationalized. Restraint and tasteful selection should be credited to Robert Anderson, who did the script...