Word: screaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Depending on the type she produced, Miss Dean used to get better than $25 for each scream from a New York radio station. The studio wanted to protect the voices of its higher paid actresses...
...first movie since On Approval−that scintillating paste-jewel of a picture with Beatrice Lillie and Clive Brook−to torture the moviegoer by making him positively ache to laugh, and then deliberately forcing him to hold it and hold it until he is ready to scream...
...Scream Stifled. Twining's decision soon got its first test. General Vandenberg retired after unsuccessfully defending the 137-wingAir Force program from Defense Secretary Charlie Wilson's early budget hacking. One of Twining's first big jobs was to join the new Joint Chiefs of Staff in a "New Look" at U.S. defense needs last September. He found that the best deal he could get out of the New Look was 127 wings. Air Forcemen drew breath for a great scream of outrage, but Twining passed the word: no complaints. The scream was stifled; Air Force sources...
...both Marcus Aurelius and Jean-Paul Sartre is in his addiction to verbal color and sensuous imagery. The Horseman on the Roof is an orgy of symbolic corpses, stinks, carrion crows and flesh-eating nightingales, interspersed with involved philosophical breedings and brisked up with epigrams ("Cavalrymen like women to scream"; "I'm afraid of grocers when they have guns"). But. like most contemporary philosophical novelists, Giono makes no real effort to be clear or intelligible. It is hard to see how he expects to help .lift modern man out of his "cemetery above the ground" by dropping a load...
...show. Many of its phrases ("We just want the facts, ma'am") and its bashful but brave hero, Sergeant Joe Friday (played by Jack Webb), have passed into U.S. folklore. Across the country, children shout: "Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday!" When asked what happened to Friday, they scream: "He's out on a case!" An orchestration of Dragnet's ponderous musical theme (DUM-da-da-DUM) became No. 7 on the Hit Parade, and the show's deadpan characters have been parodied on such bestselling records as St. George and the Dragonet and Little Blue...