Word: reel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Special Special Agent Morros unfolded details of his espionage career, it was Soviet Embassy Second Secretary Vassili Zubilin who first asked him to become a Soviet spy in 1943. From then on real life and reel life were sometimes indistinguishable. There were tales of a coded message in which the word Cinerama really meant "You are in danger. Come home at once." There were hairbreadth escapes; i.e., one day in Moscow while Morros was in conference with Soviet Spy Chief Lavrenty P. Beria, an incoming message accused him of disloyalty. Boris charmed the Russians into believing that the American woman...
Though Mature's delay in spotting Smuggler Howard is mildly excusable (until the last reel, he doesn't know what Howard looks like), his tunnel vision in losing Anita's high-heeled trail is like getting lost on the Pennsylvania Turnpike. Teamed up with a big array of foreign flatfeet to perform his mission, Mature grandstands it like a one-man beachhead in dodging the stilettos of a murderous band of toughs who jump him in a sleazy Roman hotel. This Donnybrook provokes the most sensible twist of the entire plot: a Roman police captain, Mature...
...best when he evokes the look, the sound, the colors of each passing season. Before he finishes, he has sketched for Platero and the reader a charming and shrewd picture of Spanish life that has the delicacy of a pure lyric, the relentless candor of a reel of film. At the end, Platero is dead, victim of some poisonous root, and it is plain that Jiménez has lost a friend no human can replace...
...Hatful of Rain (20th Century-Fox), the latest of Hollywood's dope operas, is much the best of the hopheaded lot. Its predecessors luridly flaunted syringes, outsize needles and puncture-mottled golden arms; their heroes inevitably kicked the habit for good in a rosy last-reel vision of a better tomorrow...
Soon he could not only reel off the names of the Presidents in order and without a slip, but he also mastered their dates, parties, terms, major accomplishments. When he got better, his parents took him driving around the Jersey countryside. One day in nearby Elberon (pop. 985), the Frankels came across a wooden sign in the window of an old private garage, bearing the crude message...