Word: motions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...motion to set up a committee to investigate the issue and report back with specific cases of inequities was defeated. Subsequently an amendment was proposed to have a committee determine the original intent...
...heart was an inertial-reference package made by Dynamics Corp. of America. Through an intricate system of tiny gyroscopes, it gave Discoverer II a continuous sensing of its motion and attitude in space. When the second-stage rocket separated, the inertial-reference package squirted jets of high-pressure helium out of orifices in the rocket's side, bringing it to a horizontal attitude. Then the rocket motor fired, driving the second stage into an orbit...
...that depends on the angle at which one leans over the crystal ball-and everyone in Hollywood has an angle. "Conditions in the movie industry," says redoubtable Independent Producer Sam Goldwyn, "are worse than I have ever known them in the 47 years I have been connected with motion pictures." Says Paramount Pictures Chairman Adolph Zukor: "The future of motion pictures has never been brighter." Last week Hollywood could split the difference, find plenty of signs that the movie industry, for all its problems, is healthier than it has been in many a postwar year...
Randall Thompson has chosen the last course, bringing a modern harmonic vocabulary to the forms and even the styles of the classical composers. His most distinctive characteristic--the parallel chordal progressions and the contrary motion of mirroring lines shows the same concern for pattern that characterizes baroque music. His counterpoint is at times almost indistinguishable from late baroque, especially in his formal fugues, and he avoids the unusual intervals of contemporary music in favor of more traditional linear movement...
...this film will have, for the host of avid movie experts, the same kind of historic interest that the picaresque novel contains for the smaller group of people who still read novels. One cannot fully appreciate the modern motion picture without having some idea of the laff riots of yesteryear, when faces served principally as background for pies, and pants could be counted on to be torn off in the middle of Main Street...