Word: screens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cream, tomato juice and lemon squash, and gave an elegant garden party for New Delhi's 400, among them junketing Eleanor Roosevelt and India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. The Nizam gathered six sons and four daughters around him, but stuck his 15 wives behind a cloth screen on a veranda, where they could only watch...
...Camp Pendleton to the Inchon landing, the recapture of Seoul and the 1950 drive into North Korea when the marines, battling frostbite and the enemy, had to fall back to Hungnam harbor. But Director Lewis' leathernecks, marching from the halls of Hollywood to the shores of sentiment, are screen stencils rather than flesh & blood marines, and the result is formula heroics...
...just advancing in a different direction." (A variation on the fighting words of Marine Captain Lloyd W. Williams, who, when ordered to retreat at Belleau Wood in World War I, replied: "Retreat, hell! We just got here.") Passed by a special ruling of Hollywood's censors, the forbidden screen word "hell" has already met with censorship troubles elsewhere. When a San Antonio radio station objected to the word in a commercial, the picture was referred to on the air as Retreat, Heck...
Hollywood Oscar winners this year included Alan Jay Lerner '40, a former Hasty Pudding member and playwright. He won his award for writing the story and screen play of the top picture of the year, "An American in Paris...
...other portrayals, though below the bandit's performance, are generally good. Unfortunately, one sees a little too much of them. Rashomon achieves a natural conclusion approximately ten minutes before it actually flashes off the screen. The producers kept going in order to get across a moral meaning. Mistakenly, they did not realize that this moral was already implicit and that the final ten minutes only hammered it in crookedly...