Word: remindful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...personalized Polaroid glasses. After Robert Stack in the pioneering 3 D film Batana Devil, nauseated millions by coming "right out of the screen to kiss you," there was a spate of 3-D films. Besides being terrible in their own right, they employed the crudest possible devices to remind audiences that they were witnessing something new in entertainment. Finally, when everyone was getting mighty tried of locomotives, spears, chairs and other doodads hurtling at them in mediocre technicolor, fox announced its new program of CinemaScope, opening new vistas of poor taste...
Several weeks ago an envious colleague sent John F. Enders, associate Professor of Bacteriology and Immunology at the Medical School, a photograph of Sweden's only lady mayer shown sun-bathing on the beach of her municipality a few miles outside Stockholm. Enders kept it on his desk to remind himself that he had an important engagement with another official of Sweden in Stockholm today...
...would respectfully like to remind Mr. Owen J. Stubbs [TIME Letters, Nov. 15] that ... in Africa, the ancestors of the "backward and unambitious race" were manufacturing iron while their contemporaries in Europe still were dabbling with bronze . . . and that if Africa is a dark continent, it was the "Christian guardians" who plunged it into darkness. Those "guardians" [who] destroyed a fine young civilization by the wholesale kidnaping of its members for the slave trade...
After the finale, Teacher Smith led his pupils onstage. They heard Proprietor Harold Minsky, pleased and professorial, boast: "It was a fast show. Good pace. No milking the acts [i.e., stalling for extra applause]." Teacher Smith hastened to remind his students that 1954 burlesque is merely a joyless corruption of the art of the '10s and '20s when the girls wore tights and such top comedians as Phil Silvers and Fanny Brice actually burlesqued Shakespeare and the opera. True burlesque. Smith declared, is dead...
...stay in football because they have a feeling for the game-the sort of feeling Bobby Layne expresses when he rambles on about what playing is really like. "I kid a lot in the huddle, 'cause I don't like the pressure to build," he muses. "I remind the guys of the good time we're going to have when the game's over, that kind of thing. But one thing Rusty Russell, my old high-school coach, used to say always stuck in my book. He used to say, 'There's no such...