Word: predictive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Aside from its sentimentality, the worst of the film's offenses is its unreality. Though Kramer & Co. predict that On the Beach will act "as a deterrent to further nuclear armaments," the picture actually manages for most of its length to make the most dangerous conceivable situation in human history seem rather silly and science-fictional. The players look half dead long before the fallout gets them. But what could any actors make of a script that imagines the world's end as a scene in which Ava Gardner stands and wistfully waves goodbye as Gregory Peck sails...
...says that he is just a bit dubious at finding himself in step with the herd. The crystal-ball gazers predict that the national product will jump to a $500 billion rate in the first quarter, race on to $525 billion or better before leveling off at $510 billion and the first half-trillion economy the world has ever known...
...hard Portrait of a Man Unknown (TIME, Aug. 4, 1958), suggests that reality, like a geometer's plane, has only surface, no depth. A young male invalid, living with his rich aunt and uncle, develops an obsessive womanish curiosity about manners and motives. He becomes acute enough to predict the exact course of his relatives' household skirmishing, and concludes therefore that he understands the skirmishers. His error does not matter until he begins analyzing Monsieur Martereau, a family friend-a steady, solid-seeming fellow who agrees to buy a house for the uncle. Martereau drives the young...
Although these early figures show a significant increase, Henry doubted that the overall number of applicants will surpass by a large amount last year's total of 4,200. "It is much too early to predict," he stated, "but the total may rise about...
...regard to the 1960 Democratic convention, Meyner acknowledged that he may be a New Jersey favorite son nominee and that he hopes to lead his state's delegation. "I want to participate in any way I can," he said, declining to predict whom the convention will nominate...