Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...final questions we asked our college subscribers to name the one issue they considered of paramount importance to them as responsible citizens. Their answers ranged from civil rights through morality in government, the need for better education. U.S. foreign policy; but most of the replies had one common denominator: the concern over world peace and the control of Communism...
...Bridges at Toko-ri (Paramount), based on the 1953 novel by James Michener, is one of the best of all the many Hollywood pictures about the Korean war. The movie is a good deal better than the book. And in this case, besides, there is the cold beauty of the jet planes as they flash through black skies like algebraic swans in a futuristic myth...
...does it have to be me?" And the picture gives Michener's answer: People back home "act the way they do because they're there. You . . . go on doing your job because you're here. It's just as simple as that." This, though Paramount may shudder to hear it said, is an existentialist answer, and surely a poor one to die on-though just as surely many a man has had to die on it for want of a better reason in his heart...
Three-Ring Circus (Paramount) has Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis selling frozen custard at the circus. Customers crowd around. All at once the bung blows out of the custard vat. Splat! Barrages of goo go glugging in all directions. Jerry tries to plug the hole with his fist. Fffffttt! His feet go silly on the slimy stuff, and down he slathers. "Helpfllgrrulp!" As he opens his mouth to holler, a stream of sweet bilge hoses down his esophagus. In a matter of seconds everybody in sight is wallowing gloriously in orange muck, and the whole scene looks like nothing...
...usual, the choices generally did not agree with the top box-office grossers for the year. The five big money pictures so far (in the U.S. and Canada only), reported by Variety: 1) Paramount's White Christmas, which, though it has been playing less than three months, has already grossed $12 million; Columbia's The Caine Mutiny, $8,700,000; Universal's The Glenn Miller Story, $7,000,000; Fox's The Egyptian, $6,000,000; Paramount's Rear Window...