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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...very little right last week in Lucy Takes a Cruise, the first of their new hour-long "musical variety" shows. Because Desi felt his filmed show was "just too funny to cut," Lucy cruised to Havana with Guest Stars Ann Sothern and Rudy Vallee through 75 minutes of bumbling sight gags and strangulated cliches, e.g., a loveless Lucy's groan, "They weren't kidding when they said this ship was on its maiden voyage." Fortunately, saucer-eyed Lucille took her lumps with undiminished zest and even worked her putty face through one funny bit in which...
...dream of the television pitchman is wondrously simple: to get painlessly but surely inside the viewer's head. To make the dream come true, two young companies are peddling "subliminal perception," the psychological phenomenon whereby a sight too fleeting to register consciously takes root subtly in the viewer's subconscious mind. This technique could flash phantom plugs on the television screen at speeds too fast (around one three-thousandth of a second) for the viewer to realize that a Madison Avenue Rasputin was selling him beer not only between the rounds of a prizefight but between the very...
...goes without saying that the incident was regrettable, but those who raise strident demands for hasty and drastic punitive action tend only to compound the wrongdoing. It is all too easy, in the heat of outrage, to lose sight of the basic principles of justice...
...party is over, a servant notifies a woman guest that her husband is ready. She dons her veil and shroud, thanks her hostess and departs without ever seeing her host. But next day she may slip out in her car, doff her aba as soon as she is beyond sight of the town and take the wheel herself for a drive to the beach...
...megacycles) that were used by Sputnik I before its batteries died. Professor Boris V. Ukarkin of the Soviet Academy of Sciences promised that the large size of Sputnik II would make it easier to see than Sputnik I, and, even though it travels higher, it should stay in sight considerably longer...