Word: rains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...should establish an academy of diplomacy to take its place alongside West Point and Annapolis," Stassen said, decrying the low caliber of our diplomatic corps. Because of the lack of adequately trained foreign service personnel "some nephew of a senator, who hardly knows how to get out of the rain, often gets a vacant position...
Deep Life-Chain. What supports life six miles below the sunlight? Dr. Bruun thinks he has at least a preliminary answer. Down from the surface water, he says, drops a nourishing rain of dead and dying creatures that grew in the life-giving sunlight. They are eaten over & over by hungry, blind creatures below. But always something remains: excrement of excrement and tough organic matter that only bacteria would appreciate...
Singin' In the Rain, Gene Kelly's new extra vaginas, is a two hour packed so crammed full of singing, dancing, and musical shenanigans that it almost seems like a giant preview of a new 12 hour coming attraction. But Kelly's brilliant dancing, a sly plot about early sound movies, and a production as big as a house and slick as a card shark make "Singin' in the Rain a superb form of escapism. The film takes those portions of American musical comedy which Hollywood does well, and does them to perfection...
...suppose, inevitable that Singin' in the Rain be compared with Kelly's last vehicle, An American in Paris. It seemed to me that the latter film had the better ballet sequence, a good male singing voice in Georges Guetary, and a certain Continental charm absorbed from the Parisian locale...
...other hand, Singin' in the Rain's Donald O'Connor is certainly a more effective comedian than was Oscar Levant, its vaudeville hoofing routines are more frequent and just as well performed as America's, and its plot contain some pointed and amusing satire on the Hollywood...