Word: plays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York Times Critic Jack Gould thought the cloak-and-daggerotype-which mixed painstaking research with fantastic guesswork-an insult to a government "with which this country maintains formal, if very strained, diplomatic relations." The Soviet Ambassador to the U.S. agreed. "Smiling Mike" Menshikov called the play "a filthy slander against the Soviet Union . . . incompatible with international standards." With that, he fired off a protest to the State Department...
...Reggie also crept into Gleason's performance of Joe, the philosophical boozer, in Playhouse 90's otherwise first-rate production of William Saroyan's The Time of Your Life.) Perhaps Gleason's worst mistake: replacing Art Carney and Audrey Meadows, who were actors, and could play up to Gleason's roaring diatribes and outrageous double takes, with Buddy Hackett, a lowbrow buffoon funny on his own but not much help to Gleason...
...happened to be a masterpiece. Pather Panchali is perhaps the finest piece of filmed folklore since Robert Flaherty's Nanook of the North. It is a pastoral poem dappled with the play of brilliant images and strong, dark feelings, a luminous revelation of Indian life in language that all the world can understand. In the three years since Pather Panchali was released, it has won five grand prizes at film festivals from Cannes to San Francisco. And everywhere discriminating moviegoers have plied the turnstiles in modest but impressive numbers-everywhere, that is, except in the U.S., where the film...
...whole market by week's end to a new alltime high of 543.36 on the Dow-Jones industrial average. U.S. Steel rose 4⅛ during the week to 84½. Bethlehem 2¼ to 51, Youngstown 6f to 117. Also helping push the market up was a big play in the nonferrous metals market. Copper shares rose up to 9^ points for the week, partly on the strength of copper strikes in Canada, Northern Rhodesia and New Mexico. Zinc and aluminum stocks also rose. The feeling that the U.S. economy on the climb again would be a spur...
After kicking off to B.C., the frosh forced the home team to punt with sterling defensive play and then marched to a touchdown the first time they had the ball, eating up 60 yards in only four plays. Halfback Roy Williams went the final 30 yards for the score...