Word: propsed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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But last week the Administration's own No. 1 mobilizer knocked the props from under Washington's alibis. Defense Production Administrator Henry Fowler said that the U.S. productive machine has grown so much since Korea that it is now capable of meeting not only the reduced arms schedules...
This florid tale has been given flamboyant direction with overemphasis on such familiar thriller props as jangling telephones and doorbells, blaring radios, sudden shrieks and cats yowling in the night. Gaunt, towering Jack Palance makes an unusual leading man for Joan, while Gloria Grahame gives a pungent performance as the...
Designer Wieland Wagner achieved most of his atmosphere by the use of lighting effects rather than scenery, and his sets contained a minimum of props. Act I was furnished with a single couch for Isolde (not a sign of the usual sail or sailors); there was no castle in Act...
His studio was a junk shop crammed with knickknacks and props: a stuffed horse without a head, sets of bagpipes which he played screechingly, old costumes strung on clotheslines across the room. Like other lonely men, he kept animals, among them a crow with a broken leg for which he...
What in the play seemed based on warm personal memories now seems based entirely on memories of show business. What was a wistful, sometimes funny, and very special comedy of manners is now a large-sized musicomedy of monkey-shines.The humor has hardened into gags; there are mechanical props and malaprops...