Word: pretending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...launched in its orbit for a considerable time to come (no one wants to say just when), but that is no reason why the teams that are training to track it should stare at an empty sky. An airplane flying at moderate speed at a moderate altitude can pretend, for research purposes, to be a satellite swinging around its orbit at 18,000 m.p.h. 300 miles...
...fashioned Levantine conspiracy complicated by 20th century gadgetry. According to the Jordan account, a Jordanian sergeant was approached by the Egyptian and offered money to do a killing. The soldier loyally disclosed the plot to the chief of staff of the Jordan army, who told him to pretend to go along with the attache, but to take a miniature recording machine with him. At the soldier's next meeting at the Egyptian embassy, the attache grabbed the sergeant, took the recorder and his service revolver from him. (This proved, said the Jordanians, that the Egyptians had spies...
...state dinner in Finland's White House, President Urho Kekkonen made no attempt to pretend that Finnish "friendship" for the U.S.S.R. came from the heart. "Finland's foreign policy," said he, staring straight at B. and K., "has been a policy of national necessity...
...nest of military puritans, rat-eyed party fanatics and servile chimney barons, of endless work, nonstop parties, public arrogance, private Angst, Germanic sentiment and rotting will, of spies, lies and a dirty, interminable fight for personal power. And through the scene but somehow above it, like let's-pretend Valkyries, wanders a tribe of strangely ambivalent German women: violent when they are wicked, passive when they are good...
...really not a great deal that need be said about this film. From the introduction, delivered by the eversonorous Edward R. Murrow, until the end, which comes three hours later, the picture is a complete joy to watch. It is not great drama or high comedy, nor does it pretend to be. It just combines all the atractions of a spectacular travelogue with the entertainment of a fine variety show, and serves them up by means of a new motion picture process known as Todd-AO. And that, it should be understood, is no mean feat...