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...that is needed would be a few tons of reinforced concrete constructed in the form of flying buttresses on three walls to support the terrific impact of the pelota, and a neon sign erected over the middle portal to advertise the pari-mutuel windows...

Author: By James M. Storey, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 1/25/1955 | See Source »

...sequences were made, the light falls slow and bright as dust from a celestial censer. The swordplay between Romeo and Tybalt flashes through Siena's gracious Piazza del Duomo. When Romeo in the last act beats with unavailing hands at the church door, he strikes the great bronze portal, green and inscrutable, of San Zeno Maggiore at Verona...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: IN FAIR VERONA | 12/20/1954 | See Source »

...Portal to Portal. The Air-Way fight was typical of Promoter Lamb, who likes nothing better than a good scrap. The son of a commercial fisherman, he worked his way through Dartmouth ('24), spent a year each at Harvard and Yale, and then graduated from Western Reserve Law School...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Innocent Lamb? | 11/29/1954 | See Source »

...corporation lawyer, with such important clients as Canadian Pacific and Willys-Overland. With his fat fees he began buying up his collection of radio stations and companies. At the same time he argued often and well for labor. Most notable victory: the Mt. Clemens Pottery Co. case, which won "portal-to-portal" pay for labor unions and brought $5 billion in suits against U.S. businessmen (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Innocent Lamb? | 11/29/1954 | See Source »

Saadia (M-G-M). "I will not allow any man to look at my body," moans Saadia (Rita Gam), a Moroccan's daughter, as the kaid (Cornel Wilde) pounds at her portal. The kaid commands. Saadia fearfully slides back the bolt. In rushes the desert chieftain. Has he come to print a searing kiss upon her lips? No, he has merely brought the local French medic (Mel Ferrer), who says that Saadia has acute appendicitis, and proceeds to cut her open...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Harem-Scare'em | 4/12/1954 | See Source »

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