Word: noted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...does it without resorting to tricks or metaphysics. Tony Winsor, the accused, and Margaret S. Groome, a shy girl who falls in love with him, are quite satisfactory in their roles. They might be even better, however, if they could suppress a tendency to shout. An additional and unnecessary note of wildness is added by the direction if Michael Harwood, who made his actors speak much faster than they should...
...believe that future historians will note," Stassen said, "that in these three years President Eisenhower changed a deteriorating world situation into a world that turned its attention to prospects of 'atoms for peace' and gradually moved to resolve its dangerous divisions...
...carries a $20 fine for the few cases where we don't," Ready said. He stated that his officers are instructed to arrest anyone 16 years of age or younger who was on the streets after the curfew hour. "The only exception are those juveniles who have a note from their parents stating that they are going to or from a church service," he said...
...View from Partridge Sir: In your Nov. 14 Cinema review of The View from Pompey's Head I note the use of the word "peckerhead." I have my own definition of this word-will you kindly provide me with yours? PERRY W. PARKER Major, U.S.A.F. (ret.) Palmdale, Calif. ¶ According to Partridge's Dictionary oj Slang and TIME'S movie reviewer, peckerhead means a kind of beak-nosed eager beaver...
...Prosperity-in-Hollywood note: as a result of increased TV film production, the Screen Actors' Guild has had the greatest rise in membership in its history: from 8,370 in 1954 to 9,832 this year, an increase of almost 20%. ¶ While the Roman Catholic bishops of the U.S. cracked down on "a rising tide of moral laxity in movies," and called for a revitalization of the aims and purposes of the National Legion of Decency, the Motion Picture Association vigorously protested to Congress that movie censorship had "seriously eroded" the constitutional guarantee of freedom of expression...