Word: nervous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Scene: The Aeronaves de Mexico airline office in the sweltering west-coast town of Culiacan. Time: 9 a.m. A nervous man in khaki shoves a heavy drum-shaped package across the counter...
...Austria, the board of film reviewers in Graz banned, to children under 16, Metroscopix, a prewar, Hollywood-made 3-D shocker. The picture, a short containing horror sequences, the board ruled, would cause "emotional and nervous shock to young people, and thereby constitutionally endanger their health." M-G-M will take the case to the Austrian constitutional court, argue that the censors' job is to protect youth against immorality, not to protect their nerves...
...biggest factor in favor of the revolving stage was the necessity for rapid scene shifts. "The General is a tense, nervous play where events follow upon each other at fever pitch," Herrey said. "In a situation of this kind, swift scene changes are imperative to maintain the intensity of the drama...
Last week, with Editor Townes out, Publisher Smith readied another plan to save the News. To cut costs, he will change the News into a morning paper. To lure readers, he also planned to cut the paper's price from 10? to 7?. But many nervous News staffers were already looking for jobs on other papers...
Last week the Herald Tribune's shy, scholarly Critic Arthur Berger, 40, took his biggest leap: his Ideas of Order, a twelve-minute orchestral piece inspired by poems of Wallace Stevens, got its premiere from the Philharmonic-Symphony, conducted by Dimitri Mitropoulos. The music had Stravinsky-like touches: nervous rhythms, clean, cool sonorities, a three-note theme scattered among instruments and pitch levels. But, in the richness of sound and in the three brief but searing climaxes, it was clear that Berger had a style...