Word: rabbiting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Those who blamed the rabbit ball for 1950's batting splurge could produce plenty of statistics to support their stand. In one game the Yankees and Tigers had banged out a record eleven homers. Homerun production, in fact, was up 27% over last year. Boston's Ted Williams had already hit 24, Cleveland's Al Rosen 25, and the Pirates' Ralph Kiner 20. But although most pitchers were beginning to seem lucky if they lasted through the seventh-inning stretch, there was more than a suspicion that the ball alone was not responsible...
Caged (Warner) uses the sob-and-slap technique to tell the story of a pregnant 19-year-old girl (Eleanor Parker) who is sentenced to state prison because of her part (innocent, of course) in a gas station holdup. Entering her cell block with the diffidence of a rabbit stepping into a jungle, she has trouble adjusting to the hysterics, hair-pulling and suicide that are rampant among her fellow inmates. Like other movie prisons, this one is run by a "good" warden (Agnes Moorehead), who is hamstrung by politicians, and a "bad" matron, who eats caramels and reads love...
Experimenting on a rabbit, Dr. Jacobson found that when the spleen and appendix were protected with lead, the animal survived what would otherwise have been a fatal overdose of X rays. The undamaged spleen and appendix make enough blood to enable the damaged tissue to recover...
Since the rabbit trick required a major operation, it could not be tried on man. But it suggested to Dr. Jacobson that the organs which have the power to manufacture blood may contain a regulating hormone. He will try to isolate the hormone, in the hope that it may speed recovery from radiation sickness and permit X-ray patients to take heavier doses. Among the blood-forming organs he would include the "useless" appendix...
...hailed as her first "adult" movie role, 18-year-old Elizabeth Taylor reveals several outstanding attributes of a beautiful woman, but few of an actress. Robert Taylor indicates inner turmoil by staring raptly off into space. Good & evil are contrasted when the two of them come upon a rabbit in a trap: Elizabeth weeps and Robert can't understand why. "It's only a rabbit," he says. Despite expert photography and the best of intentions, the film Conspirator, pale shadow of a good novel, never comes to grips with its subject, ends as neither fish, fowl nor good...