Word: motioning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...motion to cut off Dixon-Yates would probably have failed even as an isolated issue. But Cannon, who has a massive reputation as an astute parliamentary tactician, stupidly built in certain defeat when he diverted money to the Fulton public power plant. Many Northern Democrats were willing enough to knife Dixon-Yates, but few would vote for more Government-subsidized power for the South-power that would inevitably attract more migratory industry from the North...
...organized 100 greedy Congressmen in a bipartisan rump caucus, blithely added $86,376,000 in home-district chitterlings to the Public Works Bill (which included the TVA appropriations) in one of the most blatant congressional pork-barrel operations in years. Lamented Republican Glenn Davis of Wisconsin, in a futile motion to send the bill back to committee: "There is but one way that we can purge ourselves of the shame that has descended upon us here this afternoon, and that is to recommit this bill to the committee on appropriations." Brooks and friends brayed his motion down in a rafter...
...wanted to know more about dirty movies, commonly shot in hotel rooms on a G-string budget. The linking of the two probes was more than Hollywood's outraged trade press could bear in silence. Fumed the Hollywood Reporter: "It is insulting that Estes Kefauver should include the motion-picture industry in an investigation . . . of stag reels and other pornography . . . [This] is obviously nothing more than a pre-presidential publicity campaign conducted at our expense...
...Wild Melodrama . . ." As the testimony rambled on, industry spokesmen conjured up several novel defenses of their wares. Columbia's Jerry Wald asserted the right of U.S. moviemakers, unlike that of Soviet producers, to criticize their country's seamy side; Motion Picture Industry Councilman Lou Greenspan fell back on the Bible, where "murder, adultery, even incest are described." One movie adman piously explained, when Kefauver cited an advertisement showing two scantily clothed lovers grappling suggestively, that it could have been worse: "In the original [drawing] submitted to us they were clad only in beads. We at least put pants...
...leading sculptors. His constructions rank among the wittiest that movement produced. But at the height of his fashion, in 1935, Giacometti made a decision that carried him for the next twelve years through an artistic no man's land: he had come to mistrust his sense of motion and space...