Word: rework
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Last Time I Saw Paris is so phoney it hurts. In its return to the Continent from campaigns on the Italian peninsula Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer has settled on a rework of the stock script about war-weary American youth in Europe. Ostensibly patterned after a Scott Fitzgerald novel, it somehow misplaces World War I and ends up occurring in 1945. Otherwise, it is Hollywood's latest testimonial to its own mixed up conception of gay, reckless Paris...
...find something in it worth composing." This fidelity to his own time is undoubtedly the reason for Copland's extraordinary influence on modern music. The dean of American composers has severed his ties with the romanticists; he writes his music to reflect the outside world rather than to rework the feelings of a past age. "You don't pick the music," he points out, "it picks...
...screen.* It does not live up to its stage success. Except for an "upbeat" ending, which Co-Scripter Williams reluctantly imposed on Playwright Williams at the urging of Hollywood, the film gives a reasonably faithful reading of the play. Painstakingly produced and expensively cast, it tries conscientiously to rework the frail story in movie terms. But the charm, the magic and the vague sadness of the play are lost...
During the next few days, Congress will discuss the reorganization of the Executive Branch of the government. President Truman started sending plans to rework various sections of the Executive to Capitol Hill last year when he submitted seven, six of which were adopted. He based his recommendations on reports by the Hoover Commission which Congress established in 1947 to suggest ways of untangling the federal bureaucracy. This March, Truman submitted 21 more proposals slated to go into effect on May 24 unless Congress disapproved of them...