Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...blame on the obvious scapegoat: the recession. Late in hitting television (billings were actually up 13% for the first five months of 1958), the recession is now making many a sponsor juggle his advertising dollars, e.g., both Ford and Chrysler are cutting TV expenditures. In addition, some sponsors seem to be disenchanted about the selling power of even top-ranked shows. Chrysler is killing Climax!, and General Electric is switching from Cheyenne, a front-runner in most Nielsen ratings last year, to the new drama Man with a Camera (who uses G.E. flashbulbs...
...costly-taking in mortgage insurance, home-improvement loans, slum clearance, public housing, special programs for colleges, military posts, old people, veterans, farmers-requires clear definitions of its purpose and scope, but in mid-1958 the definitions are even hazier than they were in New Deal days. Federal housing programs seem to be founded on a feeling that better housing is A Good Thing-a worthy sentiment, but too vague, in itself, to serve as a national policy. Even a definition of "better" is lacking, so that federal funds often contribute to shoddy dwellings and future slums...
...accepted among the happy few, one should be more than well off, though in July and August a waterfront apartment may rent for as much as $1.000 a month, and money, therefore, has its uses. Most of the summer invaders seem to have come straight out of Sagan, who wrote one of her novels there (Hollywood's Bonjour Tristesse was filmed in the town), or out of Brigitte's film And God Created Women, which was also filmed there. For the energetic-those who struggle out of bed before 5 p.m.-there are the long, white beaches...
...advance that France be forbidden to test atomic weapons in the Sahara Desert). Their communique further deplored the "tendency for bringing influence and domination to bear over other countries by interfering in their internal affairs and with various forms of pressure." To any innocent outsider, such a criticism might seem to apply to Russia's campaign against Yugoslavia and Hungary, or to Nasser's pressure on Lebanon, or perhaps even to Iraq, but the two dictators gave two other examples instead: alleged Western pressure in Lebanon and Indonesia...
...short. Indiscreet is a conventional comedy of what Hollywood supposes to be upper-class manners, but it is flicked off in the high old style of hilarity that U.S. moviemakers seem to have forgotten in recent years. Director Donen deserves a cash-register-ringing cheer. Actress Bergman, always lovely to look at, is thoroughly competent in the first comedy role that she has played for Hollywood. And Gary Grant is in a class by himself when it comes to giving a girl a yacht...