Word: road
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Across the street, the big, expensive films are lodged. Road show films--with their promises of ever-enlarging screens--were Hollywood's answer to encroaching television. They are the sprawling films which run over their budget while assiduously reproducing illustrated trots to Great Books. Road shows inevitably run about three hours; tickets are sold on a rerseved seat basis ranging from $1.50 for balcony seats at 10:00 Saturday morning to $3.30 for the orchestra on a Friday evening...
...dropped off sharply after the war, began to increase slowly after the turn of the decade. In 1956, the Saxon, formerly a legitimate stage theatre known as the Majestic, opened with a 70 mm. Todd-AO production of Oklahoma! A year later, the Gary introduced itself with Gigi. Road shows of that magnitude became the foundation of Sack's enterprises. Last year, nine road shows accounted for 43 per cent of gross admissions. Movies may not have become better, but they had become profitable...
After shellacking the Baltimore Orioles 6-3 on the road last week, the Twins flew home to Minnesota, serenaded by the strains of Goin' Out of My Head coming from the cabin P A system. And that is how it's going. Leftfielder Bob Allison, a lifetime 257 hitter is leading the league in batting with a .533 average and a slugging percentage of .933-28 total bases in 30 times at bat. First Baseman Harmon Killebrew's batting average is .392-he also has four home runs and nine RBIs Rightfielder Tony Oliva, obviously recovered from...
Though he was raised a Unitarian amid the Lutherans and Amish of southeastern Pennsylvania, Updike joined the more middle-road Congregationalist Church in 1959. Then, a year later, as he was writing Rabbit, Run, the awareness of time passing pressed so closely on him that he felt a constant "sense of horror that beneath this skin of bright and exquisitely sculpted phenomena, death waits." It was a full-dress religious crisis lasting several months, and Updike says now that he got through it only by clinging to the stern, neo-orthodox theology of Switzerland's Karl Earth. In Earth...
...haunted by the past by shepherds paralyzed in webs of lead his boyhood Dutch Reformed Church, by his father's rough hands tending the fragile flowers in his greenhouse, most of all by his parents' death in an automobile accident. ("Piet pictured shattered glass strewn across the road...