Word: pedestrian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Montgomery Presents, as a fumbling sergeant in the U.S. Military Escort Detachment carrying a flag-draped victim of a Communist mortar shell back to the boy's home town. LIFE Staff Writer Robert Wallace's script (Soldier from the Wars Returning) was a noble-minded but often pedestrian tone poem which confused patriotism with adulation of the anonymous dead. Cagney's usual clipped, staccato style was properly subdued-especially when, at the end, he tried to work out a salvation for his hero: "Where do you go when you die? The book says, 'In my father...
...painting fraternity. But he soon found he could go farther by paying scant attention to the modes and strict attention to his models. He thought nothing of spending 100 hours on a portrait, advanced as much by elbow grease as by genius. Early in his career he reached a pedestrian conclusion that lent wings to his art: he decided that his paintings were "almost always good in proportion to the time I give them, provided I have a subject that is picturesque." As John Adams wrote of Copley's portraits, "You can scarcely help discoursing with them, asking questions...
...ballet representing a Siamese version of Uncle Tom's Cabin, choreographed by Jerome Robbins, and enchantingly danced by Yuriko and Marion Jim. The King and I moves along satisfactorily from spectacle to spectacle until the conclusion, when its message (democracy is good; slavery is bad) gets a truly pedestrian delivery at Yul Brynner's deathbed. But the jokes are pleasant, the children cute, and the songs, though familiar, have the springtime bounciness that mark Rodgers and Hammerstein's work...
...Henry Koerner's painting of Robin Roberts [May 28]: the look on Pitcher Roberts' face seemed strangely familiar to me. Then I placed it. It is also the look with which the Asiatic pedestrian fixes a motorist who honks...
Cars and trucks would be excluded to prevent congestion. Six large parking areas and modern highways are planned to surround the center to allow easy access. Though the district will be a purely pedestrian area, Grulen says that there would rarely be more than a two minute walk to any building in the area from the nearest garage. Underground trucking roads and slow moving carts would eliminate the problems of moving heavy baggage and crates...