Word: scenes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...made the scene, hopefuls all of making news, editorial, business and photographic boards for which new candidates will get glad-handed treatment at a repeat performance tonight...
Lowell's lighted bell tower will serve for the helm of a ship in the opening scene, drawing the audience immediately into the atmosphere of the production. Island scenes, by contrast, will be played on the ground...
Needed: Understanding. Some old professionals on the scene in Cuba distinguished themselves with colorful yet thoughtful reporting that gave the reader a sound base for judgment. One was Scripps-Howard's Andrew Tully, who wrote of the Sports Palace trial of a Batista army officer: "The American Bar Association would have held up its hands in horror. For it was, largely, a spectacle -a circus-in which the accused was considered guilty and was dared to try to prove his innocence...
...total result of the press coverage was that the U.S. newspaper reader, depending on his paper to bring focus to a scene far beyond his own powers of definition, was left with a murky picture. The facts were all there-the drumhead justice, the full-length profiles of the dramatis personae in a national upheaval. The meaning was not. Publisher John S. Knight (Miami, Akron, Detroit, Charlotte) openly criticized both A.P. and U.P.I, for "obscure coverage." But the blame was wider and the problem deeper than the press services...
...humanity. In the end, with a gesture of completely incredible nobility, the major betrays his country by permitting the refugees to escape ("I would never have been able to sleep again"). Whereupon the scriptwriter suddenly remembers the freedom fighters, who are permitted to provide the shocker in the final scene. They cut the major down from ambush...