Word: screens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...watching the screen," complained one bartender, "people forget what is the prime purpose of a bar, which is to drink." He had three solutions for that: 1) "An extra employee to rove through the crowd and remind people that their drink is getting low"; 2) "Fill the first row with fast Scotch drinkers, and push them slow beers to the back. However, that is too ideal to be practical, because you would be offending a beer drinker who could easily develop into something better"; 3) "Raise prices during television hours; most places...
...Lane (Third Avenue), and in Chicago and Los Angeles, barflies seemed to have reached a conclusion long since reached in Britain (where pub hours are short): "It takes up too much drinking time, you know." The more sophisticated had also become bored by anything but large-screen (at least 19 by 25 in.) telecasts...
...cinemagnates earnestly repeated that "nothing subversive or un-American has appeared on the screen" (there was no proof that any ever had). In the pursuit of their new policy, they acknowledged that "there is the danger of hurting innocent people ... the risk of creating an atmosphere of fear...
...Lost Moment (Walter Wanger; Universal-International), a puzzling screen version of Henry James's fine novelette, The Aspern Papers, would doubtless-if it had James himself for a critic-be delicately strangled in the ineluctable tendrils of his famous final manner...
When questioned about communist influence in his Screen Writers' Guild, Lavery answered, "In the recent Guild elections, only one out of 20 offices was filled by a left-winger. This man isn't a Communist. Subversive influence has been over-magnified...