Word: posters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pleasure of His Company, with Cornelia Otis Skinner, The Man in the Dog Suit, with Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy, and Daarlin' Man, a musical version of O'Casey's Juno and the Paycock. Some of these may soon rank with earlier Stevens' successes-Four Poster, Tea and Sympathy, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof...
...pronounced Sawt-yaw-jit Rye) plugged away at his movie project whenever he had a day off from his paying job. After about a year and a half of Sunday shooting, he persuaded the West Bengali provincial government to finance the production as a sort of animated travel poster. A year later Father Panchali was in the can. But when the members of the provincial government saw the picture, they were badly shaken. They had put up the better part of the production cost ($38,640) for a travelogue, and what was this peculiar thing they...
...precautions were symptomatic of the geographic shortcomings of the new union between Egypt and Syria. But there was no shortcoming in the massive welcome that Nasser got. Within an hour of the time the radio announced that Nasser was in Damascus, youth delegations, red-and-white turbaned religious leaders, poster-waving workers, ragged Palestinian refugees, and thousands of other citizens of the new republic swarmed under Nasser's guesthouse balcony to shout: "Long live our President...
...Massachusetts Bay colony without her advice. Of course, "a provoking lass she was, [with her] hair black as a wicked Spaniard's. There was a bursting carnal femaleness about her . . ." At this point, the reader will suspect that he is in for a slalom round every four-poster bed that can be worked into the narrative. Not so: no hussy she. Elizabeth represents a thoroughly modern, interfaith point of view among the heretic-hunting Puritans; and among the schismatics of prerevolutionary New England, she is the spirit of togetherness, a one-woman P.T.A. opposed to discrimination against Indians...
...four pints of blood, a half-pint on alternate days to cut down the severity of her chills-and-fever reaction to transfusions. She has responded surprisingly well to the transfusion routine. "It still hurts, but I'm a good girl about it," she says. Understandably, Helen was poster girl for the 1956 American Red Cross blood drive...