Word: motioning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Piper's collection of jazz and rock 'n' roll records rivals her classical music stock. American culture hits Britain "head-on," she said, "with no softening language barrier." She finds that American plays and motion pictures are more frank and to the point than their British counterparts...
...give me no home. No home but park benches and gutters and all-night motion picture houses full of sailors. No home but pinball machines and erotica shelves and occasional wine cellars, and a night in jail...
...powerful. 260,000-member American Federation of Musicians, which has long laid down musicians' terms for the scoring of motion pictures in Hollywood, as well as most other commercial music, last week lost control of film scoring to an upstart splinter group headed by a studio trumpet player. In an election sponsored by the National Labor Relations Board. Hollywood's film musicians chose the rebel Musicians Guild of America as their bargaining agent, by a vote...
Read's first post-victory job will be to sit down with studio representatives to work out a new contract for settling the five-month-old strike called against major motion picture companies by the A.F.M. over royalties on films released to TV. His second job: to call elections contesting the A.F.M.'s authority in the lucrative fields of live television and recordings. Petrillo's successor. Herman D. Kenin, predicted "catastrophe" for the Musicians Guild-brave talk to conceal the fact that Kenin's federation had suffered one of the rare setbacks in its 62-year...
...although the individual performances in this production are memorable, especially those of Miss Dunbar and Mr. Hill, the large credit for its overall excellence belongs with the director. He gives the play unity, motion, and best of all, the sense so often lost that the actors really are speaking to each other--the essence of drama...