Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Classic Cars. The paramount importance of style, so evident in 1958 models, was slow to make itself felt on automakers. In the years when buying, driving and tinkering with the family car were a proud male prerogative (and when most car owners could still distinguish a carburetor from an oil filter), the big sales features were dependability and technical improvements-plus the giddy growth of the U.S. itself. Every new road opened up a new market; every new mechanical advance-hydraulic brakes, balloon tires, steel to replace wood and leather-brought the new buyers flocking to Detroit's door...
...Star (Perlberg-Seaton; Paramount) is presented as a very special breed of horse opera-something the publicists call a "people western." What the moviemakers are trying to say is that the stagecoach trade should hang onto its ten-gallon hats because the characters portrayed are actually intended to resemble real human beings. They don't. Oats is oats, and the only distinctive thing about this bin of them is that they happen to be of a right good grade...
...know, too, how handicapped a student is who cannot read German. He should know German while taking seminars, and not just before he takes the degree. As for ability to write good English, we need no demonstration of the frequent lapses here. And yet no one would question the paramount importance of a man's ability effectively to put forth his findings...
...Nkata Bay the notables of the Thonga tribe coldly boycotted the Prime Minister's indaba (powwow). And at Mzimba, headquarters of 170,000 warlike Angonis, the sound of jungle drums rolled down from Mzimba's leopard-haunted mountains, as Mmbelwa II, paramount chief of the Angoni, said: "Your Honor, Nyasaland belongs to the Africans, not to you and your white...
...Joker Is Wild (Paramount) depicts in no uncertain terms the horrors of the hard stuff. Joker is another saga of the sawdust trail, and will be enjoyed by people who enjoy watching drunks...