Word: plurality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bond traders refer to bonds in the plural to save time in buying and selling, e.g., the fives...
...stars with which he decorates his name on the blackboard testify, his ego is still imperial. He attacks sense and syntax with the same insouciance that originally made him such a verbal charmer. To Hyman Kaplan, the discoverer of the laws of gravity is "Isaac Newman,'' the plural of blouse is "blice'' and the opposite of nightmare is "daymare...
...plot-derived from a 1957 novel, The Big War, by Anton Myrer-it is the usual panoramic, cram-it-all-in, move-over-Tolstoy sort of thing, with a plural hero (Robert Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter, Bradford Dillman) who has any number of women (Dana Wynter, Hope Lange, Sheree North, France Nuyen) in his composite life. Nothing happens that has not happened a hundred times before in other war pictures-except perhaps an unusually large number of sincere but badly misdirected performances by promising young cinemactors. All of them, as Producer Jerry Wald proudly points out, have been carefully nurtured...
Apart from Hagoth, Maoris and Mormons seem to mesh because both once practiced plural marriage. Even more important, white Mormons have carefully learned the Maori language, fostered their art and culture. New Zealand's National Council of Churches has flatly rejected the Mormons as members: "Their conception of God is anthropomorphic. To them he is really a glorified man." But New Zealand's Anglicans at least were ready to take a lesson from how the Mormons are "sheep stealing" among the Maoris. Questioning whether they have really made Maoris feel at home in their churches, the Anglicans were...
...First Person Plural Dagmar, now 58, presents a jaunty flashback to the splendiferous silent days "when money was thrown to the winds [but] always landed right back in the box office." Publicity departments "[made] us all creatures of fantasy" so that Theda Bara tried to live up to her studio's statement that "her coming was prophesied on the Nile in the ancient days when Egyptians lived there." Margaret Livingston served a formal tea to her cat every day at 4 ("Ask Paul Whiteman. who later married her"), while Nazimova was the only member of the "nobility of Bedlam...