Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...displayed on Broadway during the 1,246 performances of the play's run. About all that Hollywood has added are the production values of CinemaScope 55 and De Luxe color. Except for a few obviously toy boats in the opening shot, each scene appears built to a supercolossal scale, and the film's small passions are played out amid fountained gardens, marble audience halls, Lucullan bedrooms and latticed chambers...
...directing Henry, Douglas Seale has exploited the set's physical advantages to the limit. He stages the battles with uninhibited gusto, now sending his soldiers leaping into the audience, now bringing them onstage with ladders to scale the besieged fortress. He takes care, it seems, to avoid having his characters leave the stage by the same exit any two times during the evening. Indeed, Seale has probably been too assiduous in filling the background of each scene with two or three people leaning against posts or draped over railings; this often gives an artificial, posed effect. But in general Seale...
...regard to the rest of the summer term, Wood said it would be financially impossible this year to extend the weekend hours of either library. The personnel and other costs of keeping a place like Lamont open just will not allow it under the present scale of tuition charges, he added...
...Russia of the existence of the speech and the juicy issues it raised. In this backhanded way, though not yet in possession of Khrushchev's chilling facts and figures, Russians could in passing learn much from Dennis ("Nothing can justify the use of tortures and rigged trials, large-scale deportations, provocative and chauvinist actions as in the case of Yugoslavia, the persecution of Jewish doctors...
Despite the task force approach, research is not a monopoly of the big companies. Many small companies that cannot afford full-scale research programs of their own can hire top outside brains to solve their scientific problems. Companies such as B. F. Goodrich and General Dynamics specialize in product development to fit other companies' requirements. Even corporations with their own big laboratories often hand over research projects to scientific contractors such as Boston's famed Arthur D. Little Inc. (1955 gross: $11 million), whose 800-man research staff has developed products ranging from rubber cement to a better...