Word: screens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cold dark before winter dawn, by the TV screen's eerie blue glare, the show's rumpled star looks like an insomniac alchemist. With spectacles sliding down his nose, he brews electrons, protons and mesons while evoking Newton, Faraday, Planck, Einstein and Heisenberg. To watch NBC's Continental Classroom (6:307 a.m.), some 275,000 Americans are sacrificing sleep for science five days a week...
...expression from my own metier, thinking wide-screen. This new project should not be a watered-down brew of local semi-professional theatre, governed by an enormous and unwieldly board of wrangling representatives. It is a broadly-conceived plan to bring the best in drama (and music as well) from all over the world to a superb theatre in the Greater Boston community...
Sprawled across a wide-screen horizon the events of 1958 moved slowly to their completion with various actors seeking their Oscars. The year was a good one for Pasternak, Castro, and Charles de Gaulle, who became immortalized by being named Time's Man of the Year, barely edging out Al Vellucci for the honor. But, with few exceptions, the plot was pretty dull, and most people sat back and waited for the short subjects. They came, in the form of hula hoops, mixed-mortality TV westerns, a talking satellite, and higher prices for vicuna coats...
...Carney, The Velvet Alley never made clear why a man cannot make $100,000 a year without being a heel, or why, somehow, little old New York is a safer place to be successful than Hollywood. The most intriguing fact about the play was not seen on the TV screen: Author Serling's own partial identification with his hero. Working on the show, said Serling, "I left strips of flesh and blood all over the studio. The externals of the play are definitely autobiographical -the pressures involved, the assault on values, the blandishments that run in competition...
...sooner has the customer rubbed his magic wallet than presto! the first monster, a 50-ft. orange Cyclops, materializes on the screen and comes charging straight at him-the colossal eye rolling around in its prodigious socket like a cannon ball in a bathtub, the fangs dripping like bloody stalactites. Luckily, the wicked magician (Torin Thatcher) puts a whammy on the brute, but then he also puts a whammy on the beautiful princess (played by Kathryn Grant, billed as "Mrs. Bing Crosby"). Unfortunately, the audience will not get much of a look at the young celebrity. When the magician gets...