Word: potemkin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...since World War II millions of Americans have moved into thousands of new communities that have sprung full-furbished from an architect's brain. And the big housing developments -alternatively praised as the first fruits of social engineering, and damned as the most fantastically irreal estate since Prince Potemkin's villages-have had a drastic effect on the American way of life. But who can actually say what the effect has been? Have they created a split-level personality? Is the American male developing a barbecue pituitary or a carport stoop? Is his wife, with all her built...
...devoted to the Czarist decay that made Communism possible,and there were fine shots of the Romanovs at play while revolutionaries were being ineffectually routed out of cellars. For the upheavals of the Bolshevik age, Producer Henry Salomon leaned heavily on excerpts from such great Eisenstein films as Potemkin and Ten Days That Shook the World. All in all, the story of tyranny rampant was pieced together out of newsclips and bits of movies from some 76 different sources. The film was often hauntingly effective with its firing squads, starving children, hanged partisans and iron-faced Red leaders...
...work converting downtown Pyongyang into the showplace of a new Red colony, with the usual shiny Stalin Boulevard and a marble International Hotel (185 rooms with bath), in preparation for a big Soviet celebration on Aug. 15. "The fronts of houses and buildings, at least," warned Pyongyang newspapers, Potemkin-style, "should be repaired and made presentable...
...were ready for them. Over vodka and shashlik, at a dinner party given for the visiting Americans, one Communist editor rose and proposed a toast to "Mr. Eisenhower and the American people." Just as quickly, Publisher Wiek was on his feet, toasting "the health of Premier Georgy Malenkov." With Potemkin-like efficiency, the group was taken on carefully conducted tours through the subway, to a collective farm, to the new Moscow University building, and to a candy factory...
...high Mongolian cheekbones. His short, refund body, with a slight lunch to the shoulders, suggests a great emotional and moral force. He has a gray, wrinkled complexion which tells the mixed story of his life laughter and story-telling around a campfire with the rebelling crew of the Battleship Potemkin combined with the anger and frustration of being a political prisoner of Nazi Germany...