Word: ribboned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There are important positive features necessary to the Western: the filming should be primarily outdoors, and it should interlace bright action sequences with dark, sinister night scenes. The music should be vivid, yet sensitive. But purity and accuracy remain most important. A recent example, "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon," was so pure and accurate that it pleased most audiences even though it had no plot. A bad Western is not worth a bag of peanuts to drown out its sound track, but the pure and faithful Western--the classic Western--can produce that six bits' worth every time...
...Pickering and Detroit police searched the three-story building, found nothing suspicious. But at 11:30 that night, a night watchman spotted a rain-soaked cardboard carton outside an unused basement entrance. It was wrapped in red and green Christmas paper and tied with a piece of cheap blue ribbon. Inside were 39 sticks of dynamite, carefully packed and taped into three bundles. One of the two fuses had burned out within an inch of the detonator, apparently snuffed out by the black friction tape which bound it too tightly; the other had fizzled out against a defective dynamite...
...flock, raise it carefully until ready for marketing, and remit the proceeds to the party exchequer. While the choice Communist chick is being fattened, added Gino brightly, it might be nice to distinguish it from its leaner non-Communist brethren by tying around its neck a bright red ribbon...