Word: phenomenons
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Forest Lawn Cemetery, where Paramhansa's body was embalmed, officials reported an unusual phenomenon. Wrote Mortuary Director Harry T. Rowe: "No physical disintegration was visible . . . even 20 days after death . . . Paramhansa Yo-gananda's body was apparently devoid of impurities . . . [His] case is unique in our experience...
...City Ballet's celebrated production The Cage (TIME, June 25, 1951), in which the characters are costumed as giant insects-and the females first attract, then destroy the males. A few Londoners might find it puzzling, but not the editors of Picture Post. It was a wellknown U.S. phenomenon: "The women oi America ... eat their men until nothing is left but the inevitable gastric ulcer and a series of figures in blood red on a debilitated bank-statement form...
Between shows in the capital, Musi-comedienne Carol (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes) Channing disclosed that her giddy role had not kept her from observing a phenomenon across the local footlights. Her dictum: "Washington audiences come to the theater as researchers. They watch me like hawks and . . . treat me with the deference they would accord to a symphony, but it's impersonal . . . If Americans are ready to accept big people with close-cropped hair and large eyes like me, Washington wants to know about it. I have a feeling I'm being examined and absorbed and filed away, because...
...unremarked phenomenon of Herbert Hoover is that he has been so long out of a regular job and has kept himself so busy. It is 19 years since he became, at 58, that white elephant of American politics, an ex-President (the only living one). Most recently he has been living and working in the tower of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, mainly putting together the notes which he has jotted down during ocean voyages and waits in railway and air terminals. The notes are his recollections of 70-odd years-his memoirs, his convictions and his self-vindication...
...gives the characters and the director complete freedom to handle now-hackneyed sequences with new concepts of suspense. Dialogue is kept at a minimum, and action at an unswerving peak. Close-ups, usually a dangerous gimmick, successfully convey the desired note here as the actors act natural, a rare phenomenon in modern movies...