Word: piranha
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While the U.S. taxpayer goes through the $77 billion tax bite necessary to feed the new federal budget, he stands to be nibbled by piranha attacks of increased state taxes. Combined budgets of U.S. Governors as 46 legislatures convene this year*to consider fiscal matters: more than $17 billion, an increase over current expenditures of about $1 billion...
...beginning, and it is Actor Palance. This performer has made his reputation by the portrayal of violent emotion, and this state of spirit he portrays most vividly. Indeed, he seems unable to portray anything else. Does he eat a sandwich? No, he tears it to pieces like a starved piranha. As Palance plays his parts, it becomes increasingly difficult to decide which is the sane brother and which the crazy one. In any case, if there is anything more depressing than Actor Palance...
...longing for primitive things. He found them: crocodiles everywhere, spiders that can catch birds, anacondas more than 60 ft. long that wail disturbingly in the jungle night, bloodsucking cockroaches, 2-in. biting ants, hordes of vampire bats, rivers full of stingrays, electric eels and shoals of tiny, man-eating piranha...
...fated expedition, who has now grown up to become a sort of Jane Russell of the jungle. Boy & girl lose the idol but, predictably, find that they idolize each other. Fumblingly filmed in Brazil, Peru and Bolivia and awkwardly dubbed in English, Strange World features man-eating crocodiles, carnivorous piranha fish, headhunters armed with poisoned arrows, and raging rapids. But the movie's most exotic attraction is an Indian guide playing The Old Folks at Home on a harmonica as the expedition cruises down the Amazon...
...calorenticator" (a flexible rubber tube reaching from the nostrils to the inside of the shoes; the wearer can warm his feet merely by exhaling). In its basement is an aquarium left over from the Bureau of Fisheries (now under the Department of the Interior) where catfish, a man-eating piranha and a two-headed turtle sport and splash and amuse small boys...