Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...consent decree, like those signed by RKO, Paramount, 20th Century-Fox and Warner Brothers (TIME, May 17, 1948, et seq.), requires Loew's to sell 24 theaters outright, and possibly 50 others in its 131-theater chain, in order to encourage competition. Under the five consent decrees signed by the movie companies, more than 1,200 theaters will eventually be sold to independent exhibitors. Another 1,300 are slated to be run by the new theater companies that were organized after divorcement...
...maintains a completely objective viewpoint, he sees that this is not necessarily true; there is another and contradictory theory which stands out in the plot. This, of course, is that the idea is paramount. One must attach himself fully to the idea, sacrificing everything to it so that it may exist and live in the minds of an ever-increasing number of people...
Both professors called for a movement away from the primarily military approach which this country is taking towards a policy of pacifist non-violence. "At the present moment in human history when we have man the killer at large, the paramount need of man is the decrease of militarism," said Sorokin...
...pulled a knife on her, she shot him dead. Tried for murder, she was acquitted because she killed in self-defense. People on the streets began singing the ballad of Frankie at her, and they kept singing it as she moved westward. Mae West sang it in the Paramount film, She Done Him Wrong; then RKO did a picture called Frankie & Johnnie. Frankie Baker complained that everybody but her was making money out of her song. Her travels ended in Portland, Ore., where for the past few years she lived on relief in a ramshackle frame house. Neighborhood kids sang...
...Mountain (Hal Wallis; Paramount) harks back to the most persistent historic figure in recent horse opera: General William Clarke Quantrell, the Rebel guerrilla. This time, in Technicolor, Alan Ladd foils the greedy designs that the script lays to Quantrell: a scheme for carving out his own empire in the West...