Word: procession
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thus, in a mediocre season that owes much of its mediocrity to them, ratings remain a controversial, confusing means of doing imperfectly only part of what the TV advertiser needs done-and spreading unhappiness in the process. But until something better comes along, TV finds them indispensable. "I'm not bitter and I'm sure they're as honest as they can be," said one unemployed comic last week. "But it's like the story of the gambler who played the roulette wheel in this little town and kept losing all night, until a fellow came...
...offshore drilling barge. Houston's John W. Mecom and three associates were drilling a pair of exploratory wells in Honduras. In Guatemala, where 29 U.S. companies bid for exploration rights after the government of President Carlos Castillo Armas passed what oilmen called a "tough but workable" law, the process of sorting out overlapping concessions was going on, but no drilling had yet begun...
Even when it does not lead to violence -as it has in Clinton, Tenn.-the process of desegregating Southern public schools creates problems that can dismay the most idealistic of men. Last week, after five months of investigating the effects of integration in Washington, D.C., the four Southern members of the House subcommittee headed by James Davis of Georgia issued a report that, for all its obvious bias and sensationalism, contained some shocking facts about what a Southern city can be up against. Chief findings...
Holed up in a centuries-old farmhouse outside Barcelona, Spanish Surrealist Painter-Sculptor Joan Miró and Potter Josep Llorens-Artigas three years ago embarked on one of the strangest pottery-sculpture adventures since the ancient Zapotecs cooled their kilns. As Artigas described the process to the French art review L'Oeil, "Miró had collected objects over the years . . . an empty sardine can flattened by a truck, odd pieces of cork, rubber, glass, rocks . . . These chance encounters became sculptural elements to be translated into pottery." Artigas and his 18-year-old son would shape these elements in clay...
Giant. In the year's best Hollywood picture, Director George Stevens delivers a three-hour tirade against materialism as the Lone Star State typifies it, and in the process wins a fine performance from the late James Dean (TIME...