Word: neighborhoods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attacks daily in the region. Once last August, they swept through town killing some 80 Europeans and warning the rest over the radio to "take your choice: a valise or a coffin." French repression was brutal, immediate and indiscriminate, taking an estimated 4,000 Moslem lives in the neighborhood, but it was not effective...
...Movie programs at neighborhood theaters will be changed more often in 1956 because of a 10% increase in movie production last year, the first such production rise in Hollywood since 1951. Exhibitors believe that more movies playing for shorter runs will help raise the box-office take, which suffered a recession in 1955 (TIME...
...since a prolonged strike of the New York Newspaper Guild drove the Brooklyn Eagle out of business nine months ago, have almost 3,000,000 borough-proud Brooklynites had a daily newspaper they could call their own. Last week the Brooklyn Daily, after five modest years as a neighborhood paper, took on new staffers and features (including some from the Eagle), and expanded to fill a borough-wide role. But it promptly ran into labor trouble. The independent Newspaper and Mail Deliverers' Union called a boycott to force the new paper to break its distribution contracts and to employ...
...will. Arnold Stang, as Sparrow the dog stealer, looks as woebegone and unhealthy as a tenement torn just starting his ninth life on the garbage-can circuit, but he seldom hides the human quality of his part behind his television false face. Kim Novak is the type of the neighborhood frill, and she gives her big scene all she's got. Frank Sinatra, in particular, does a hurting job. Weary, weak, bewildered, battered, Frank's dogged Frankie is a creature who comes bitterly to understand that fate is character, fate is the thing...
...liked in the Communist city, but after arriving and being herded in small, carefully chaperoned groups through hour after hour of exhibits and lectures, few found more than an hour or two in their four-day visit to look up old friends. And when they got to their old neighborhoods, they were surrounded by neighborhood reception committees and could only cry "How are you?" to their families in public...