Word: popular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year ago, President Eisenhower momentarily diverted attention from the peril of the atom with his "Atoms for Peace" speech before the United Nations. His proposals for an international agency to aid in the development of atomic energy for peaceful use set off an immediate wave of popular enthusiasm throughout the world...
...picture fails because a drama is popularized which was already perhaps too popular. Critics such as Howard Taubman have had to speak out periodically, defending Carmen from her admirers and pointing out that beneath the years of uninformed applause, the opera stands, near-perfect. Moving this drama from the Spain of the last century to the South of a decade ago does not bring the characters closer to the audience. The switch in locale merely points up incongruities which slip by better in the splendor of opera. When an American murders his love, for example, he does not burst into...
Bowling, Archery Popular...
...Sheree North, a modern-day cootch dancer who made a big hit in Broadway's Hazel Flagg (TIME, Feb. 23, 1953), and who has been described as having a "ball-and-socket pelvis," learned from a federal court m Los Angeles that two of her early films (now popular in the stag-party circuit) were not, as the Post Office suggested, "obscene, lewd and lascivious." Said Judge Ernest A. Tolin: "To say the films (How to Be an Exotic Dancer, The Waste-Basket Blues) have no reference to sex would be naive in the ultimate . The movements...
Around the turn of the century a popular form of entertainment was the "living tableau" in which luxuriously-costumed people stood stock-still in the midst of lavish sets, portraying famous paintings or moments in history. I am afraid that Twentieth-Century Fox has produced the greatest living tableau of all, complete on a wide screen. MICHAEL J. HALBERSTAM...