Word: screens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...buildings, extended the roof 20 ft. to create a portico supported by narrow, gilded-aluminum columns that run around the whole perimeter. From the Taj Mahal he borrowed the idea of marble and ala baster grilles to cut down glare, but to keep the execution modern. Stone designed a screen of pierced tile that will drop from roof to floor, giving the two-story building an expansive one-story appearance. A double roof with air conditioning will do the job lyth century Indian builders solved with the Taj Mahal's soaring white domes...
...Wind. But as a reflection of Tolstoy's absorbed peeling back of the contradictory layers of human nature, it is nearly valueless. In his tremendous novel, Tolstoy's characters are so alive that they seem more like family and friends than fictional creations. On the VistaVision screen, these same people are only too clearly actors more accustomed to sports shirts and pedal pushers than to the finery of igth century courts and camps...
Sometimes a successful one-shotter graduates into an annual or a quarterly, e.g., Screen Album Magazine, Baseball. But that is not the goal of the one-shot specialist, who is always looking for the magazine that will live big even if (unlike James Dean) it lives only once...
...letdown. Burning Hills is simply one more version of the venerable western about the mean old rancher out gunning for the squatters who are fencing off the open range. The six-shooters bang, the corpses hit the dust, the cowboys gallop hell for leather across the wide screen. In between the bloodlettings, Tab Hunter and Natalie Wood speak pidgin English to each other and sleep out on the prairie without a chaperon. The villains had several good chances to rub them out, but missed...
...gives him the larruping he has been asking for. The fight is the film's catalyst. From it, Murray learns that a man has not always "gotta right to the things he loves," while Marilyn discovers, to her surprise, that his ear-splitting exuberance is just a protective screen around a small...