Word: pandemoniums
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...improbable commotion completely fill the screen, and the ordered nonsense is a monument to the direction of Howard Hawks. He has filmed the hectic action without losing either reasonable pace or timing, and the result is a picture that does with clever dialogue what Olsen and Johnson do with pandemonium and underdone custard pies. The only possible improvement would be a more thoughtful spacing of laughs. One can easily miss several excellent boffs while recovering from ones coming just before. The answer is to sit through two shows...
...only standard against which the case of Harry Dexter White can be tested. If that case helps the people rationally decide whether Democrats deserve office in the near-future and if it aids in devising means, consistent with civil liberties, to bar communist infiltration, then it is worth the pandemonium. We suggest, however, that it fails on both counts...
...touring Vice President Richard Nixon sat enjoying an official program of folksongs and dancing in Korea, part of the low stage collapsed, easing some 40 performers to the ground. In the ensuing pandemonium, the orchestra leader fled the theater in tears. Then Nixon took the situation in hand, leaped to his feet and led a round of applause. After the entertainers clambered back onto the remainder of the stage and finished the show, Nixon commented: "Another example of the courage of the Korean people...
Chest-Beater. The result was not, as might be expected, a kind of Spike Jones pandemonium, but gently exuberant, whimsical and thoroughly disciplined. Eddie Sauter and his partner Bill Finegan are running the most original band heard in the U.S. in years...
...described Beethoven's music as sounding like "the upsetting of bags of nails." Chopin's music was damned in its entirety by London's Musical World as "ranting hyperbole and excruciating cacophony." Tchaikovsky was assured by the Boston Evening Transcript that his new Fifth Symphony was "pandemonium, delerium tremens, raving, and above all, noise worse confounded." And Tchaikovsky himself was not above recording a terse opinion about Brahms: "That scoundrel . . . What a giftless bastard...