Word: screens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...kind of California crusade for good government. Dick didn't have a dime of his own. So this fund was set up to cover his extraordinary expenses outside his office. Dick never got a nickel of it for personal use. And we were most careful to screen the contributors. We didn't want anybody contributing who might use the fact as a lever on Dick's voting...
...robot's flight was controlled from the carrier's deck; then a piloted AD attack bomber, serving as a guide plane, took over. The Hellcat had a 2,000-lb. high-explosive bomb strapped to its belly, and a television camera under one wing. A TV screen in the guide plane enabled the observer to see just what the robot plane's camera "saw." Another screen on the Boxer also reproduced the show...
...acting varies from too much to none at all, McLaglen successfully straddles the two extremes, though his face permits the widest scowls and leers ever seen on a movie screen. Fitzgerald, of course, serves up his hoary characterization of the Lovable Old Irishman. Miss O'Hara looks fine herding sheep, but the scene in which she's frightened by lightning is probably the year's worst bit of acting. Wayne as usual is a capable hero...
...actually left the hall, and when the announcer asked for enrollments in the course only a scattering of hands went up. But the Carnagie-men refused to give up. They filed out the door, all the lights went out, and a movie called By Jupiter flashed on a screen in front of us. This film illustrated the technique of manipulationship with a frankness that the speakers had not shown...
...produced in the last few years have stressed the more human side of the American Indian, rather than portraying him as a red Capone on horseback. The best of these, as I recall, was The Broken Arrow, in which the hero married an Apache girl. The Big Sky, a screen adaptation of A. B. Guthrie's excellent historical novel, is the latest movie to benefit from sympathetic treatment of Indians...