Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just as the tide ebbed, the first invading wave of cars whisked along the rim of the sand. Loudspeakers blatted. Whistles skirled. The racket of racing engines woke the town. For the next two weeks the annual speed trials of the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing turned Daytona Beach, Fla. into a motorized madhouse...
...travelogue scenery, and some distractingly phony sets, to carry the plot forward. The photography can be helpful in the large scenes like the clambake or in the choreography numbers. But when MacRae sings the Soliloquy he is lost, if not drowned, in the midst of miles of surf, sand, and rock formations...
...Columba and the River details how a quirk of hydrodynamics blows a sand hog unharmed from a collapsing tunnel to the surface of a river. With leaden humor, Dreiser jeers at the man's belief that the saints had preserved...
...broad daylight. Harmless-looking old shopkeepers convert their shabby little stores into arms depots for Communist agents. A Chinese gambling-house operator runs weapons to the enemy. Counterespionage is apt at any time to burgeon into counter-counterespionage. At this game Adam Patch is about as subtle as a sand-lot quarterback. A Vietnamese doctor shows up, claiming to be a deserter from the Communists, with a plan for winning the countryside that the Reds have not yet seized. Although nothing reliable is known about him, Adam latches onto him as if he were the answer to a State Department...
...undresses behind a bush. He watches. So does the camera. Either the bush has too little or Sophia has too much upholstery. Moments later she and the driver are frolicking in the sand together, and as his blood mounts-beep! The emergency horn informs him that her two confederates are stealing...