Word: prods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plot, a musical within a musical, with its noisily surreptitious shifts from onstage to off, appears just too heavy and elaborate a vehicle for the camera to prod along. Even so. if other performers had spread the wings of song as grandly as Howard Keel (Petruchio), the picture might have been better...
...large, has 20,000.) While in jail at the "disposition of the executive," political prisoners are treated reasonably well. In "interrogation" sessions, however, police often use torture. The accepted procedure is to strap the nude victim to a marble table, douse him with a bucket of cold water, and prod the eyelids and other sensitive parts of the body with a hot electric wire...
...Gods Are Silent follows Soloviev's own career. The book opens with a glimpse of a village in the heart of the steppes, where the peasants have suffered harshly from the fighting of 1914-17. The lusty Surov boys bring home their weapons, declare a local soviet, cheerfully prod the village policeman to strip in public as a symbolic means of abdicating his authority; and to ten-year-old Mark Surov, gazing spellbound at the revolutionary bravado of his brothers, it all seems like a new world. From this point on, Soloviev charges through the nightmare of modern Russia...
There is a third possibility. Harry Truman's open opposition might prod Kefauver into a fight. Perhaps New Hampshire proves that Truman is already treed on Kefauver's television antenna. If the Chicago delegates have proof positive that the Legend is a better vote-getter than the Liability, they might-just possibly-rebel and nominate the man in the coonskin...
Most Western oilmen realize this, yet reform necessarily lags behind royalties. It is easier to extract a million barrels of oil than to educate a whole people to a new, precarious, speeded-up way of life. Moreover, oil companies must beware of interfering too much: the sheik they prod may also cancel their concession. Yet (as Iran proved) if the company doesn't prod, the internal discontent can become so explosive as to endanger its position. Damned if they do, and damned if they don't, the companies move circumspectly, and in most cases with surprising skill...