Word: rolled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fitzgerald while dancers gyrate in the "Fallaway Twist" and the "Natural Hover Whisk." Scandinavia has a local growth of "cool" jazz, and France has an unquenchable thirst for le jazz hot. In Britain, shops are doing brisk business in the "GENUINE 'Mr. B.' Shirt with its wide roll collar as worn by the Famous American Singing Star BILLY ECKSTINE." The Communists are paying their own kind of compliment: in the East German town of Aue last week, Red police jailed members of the "Manhattan Club" for tossing partners over their heads in "crazy boogie-woogie" dancing...
Superspeed Film. Eastman Kodak Co. put on sale a new roll film in 35-mm., 620 and 120 sizes that is twice as fast as Kodak's Super-XX. The new TriX film will take indoor snapshots with ordinary light, night sports events without flash. Price: same as Kodak's Super...
...Collapse physically. Practice this several times a day. Let go every muscle in the body. Conceive of yourself as a jellyfish, getting your body into complete looseness. Form a mental picture of a huge burlap bag of potatoes. Then mentally cut the bag, allowing the potatoes to roll out. Think of yourself as the bag. What is more relaxed than an empty burlap...
Carmen Jones (Otto Preminger; 20th Century-Fox). The rattle of the cash register does not often serve as the drum roll of social progress. With this picture it may. Otto Preminger's Hollywood version of Billy Rose's Broadway version of Georges Bizet's grand opera seems sure to be a big hit. It also seems likely that the picture will fling somewhat wider the gates of opportunity for Negro entertainers in Hollywood. For in this picture the actors present themselves not merely as racial phenomena but as individuals, and they put across a Carmen that...
...foreign difficulties on the present administration. Professor Northrop contends that pre-election and post-election statements by Dwight Eisenhower and John Foster Dulles about "rollback" and "liberation" frightened Europeans into increasing neutralism and anti-Americanism, thereby damaging the cause of European union. What Northrop wants to roll back is U.S. foreign policy-back to the way it was handled under Truman. He would have the U.S. make no major decision and announce no policy in foreign affairs without first consulting the opposition party and the European allies...