Word: overboard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...point proves its major disappointment: the action at sea. The script makes Wayne's submarine do everything that a submarine can (and perhaps, a moviegoer may suspect, some things that it cannot). But the fighting takes place on the bravado level of an adventure story, e.g., Wayne dives overboard to swim to the rescue of a downed fighter pilot. Even on that level, the film develops little suspense. By applying realism to technical jargon rather than to such essentials as character, mood and incident, the picture never conveys the submariners' sense of danger, confinement and (except unintentionally) deadly...
...tastes do change. When Peter Blume's big, weird, neatly painted South of Scranton won the coveted Carnegie International prize 16 years ago, critics clucked and the public pooh-poohed. This year the Carnegie jury went overboard for a yet stranger painting by Paris Abstractionist Jacques Villon (TIME, Oct. 30). The Pittsburgh public, meanwhile, has caught up with Connecticut's Blume. When the ballots were counted, the popular prize went to his entry, The Rock...
Vacant Seats. Korea's political problems were even more difficult. The fundamental political question was whether Syngman Rhee's government was to be tossed overboard. Certain U.N. members, who considered Syngman Rhee "reactionary" and wanted to drive him out of power, said that new elections should be held throughout Korea. Rhee's supporters argued that this would be penalizing South Korea for having been invaded. The present Republican government, they said, was the product of two U.N.-sponsored elections, the second held last May. Since 1948, the Republic had held vacant 100 seats in the National Assembly...
...Overboard. Oddly enough, Heyerdahl had no trouble in raising his crew of five, all but one of whom were landlubbers and all itching to go. Herman Watzinger, an engineer, and Ethnologist Bengt Danielsson invited themselves when they heard about the stunt. Knut Haugland, Tor-stein Raaby and guitar-playing Painter Eric Hesselberg all jumped at the chance when they were asked. There is no indication, in the book at least, that they regretted it for a moment...
...obligingly lived up to its name. The Kon-Tiki had been built cunningly and rode the seas like a chip. "The more leaks the better. Through the gaps in our floor the water ran out but never in." Only once was a crewman in serious danger, when Watzinger fell overboard and was unable to catch up with the raft, which was at the mercy of the current. Haugland jumped in with a life line and rescued him while the other four watched with horror as some huge sea monster tailed the swimming...