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Word: semi (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...probably the climax in a week of unrelenting semi-deification bestowed on Joseph Stalin during the celebrations of his 70th birthday. Throughout, a super-lifesized head of the celebrant grinned down from the heavens above the Kremlin upon his worshiping subjects. It was quite a nice trick, too; the head (and a discreet portion of bust, to suggest that it was still fixed to a body) was suspended from balloons and illuminated by huge spotlights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: News of Adam-zad | 1/2/1950 | See Source »

Lost Boundaries. A moving, semi-documentary story of a Negro family that passed for white (TIME, July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Choice for 1949 | 1/2/1950 | See Source »

...Quiet One. A shoestring semi-documentary offering eloquent insight into juvenile delinquency through its story of an "incorrigible" boy (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Choice for 1949 | 1/2/1950 | See Source »

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