Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Atomic City (Paramount) is a neat little B-budget thriller of grade-A caliber about G-men hunting down H-bomb spies. The fun begins when foreign agents kidnap a nuclear physicist's son and hold him for a ransom in atomic formulas. The cops & robbers story is an old formula itself, but the tightly knit screenplay bristles with tingling action and intriguing mechanical devices used by the FBI operatives to track down the criminals: car-to-car telephones, kinescope, television cameras with zoom lenses...
...Latino (from Venezuela), and agree that besides many social transformations urgently needed in Latin America, time is ... of paramount importance for fulfilling the requirements of what we (in the United States) understand as a democracy...
Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick (Paramount), which has been performed more than 50,000 times on the stage as "the greatest of all rural comedies," comes to the screen for the first time without setting any celluloid on fire. This 1919 corn-belt classic by Lieut. Beale Cormack* is a blend of Joe Miller and mellowdrama, with a cast of hayseedy characters: confidence man Bill Merridew (Metropolitan Opera's Robert Merrill), who is out to fleece Josie, the pretty Oklahoma widow (Dinah Shore), only to be outwitted by bashful bumpkin Aaron (Alan Young). To this staple story the picture...
...number of reasons the "Inferno" is used to shelter the erotic literature. Preservation is also a paramount consideration here. According to Haynes, studies like Freud's "interpretation of Dreams" and Havelock Ellis' "Psychology of Sex" are kept locked up because "the Library was continualy losing these looks...
...unequivocal stand on this issue. But at the same time we feel that he has stated his case inadequately and perhaps so idealistically that it becomes naive. President Conant should not be afraid to explain further his concepts, and in so doing, to grapple more fully with the paramount issues facing the public schools at present...