Word: skeletonic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hours on another night--almost equalling the peak total of users earlier in the day. Despite this capacity load, however, the librarians still ask whether the occasional full-scale use is worth the additional expense. But one estimate places the cost per term at $2,500; last year's skeleton operation required only...
Cost of operating the library on a skeleton basis for the additional hours last spring only came to $1600. This would evidently not be sufficient for satisfactory operation in the future, however...
This week the Brattle has lifted an old skeleton from the Hitchcock closet. Jamaica Inn, which bears little resemblance to the director's usual stock-in-trade, will be locked away by Saturday, however, and perhaps it is just as well. In the meantime, Charles Laughton's performance eases some of the strain created by two hours of frenzied melodrama...
...nonetheless disappointing-a clear warning of some of the tremendous problems ahead in a season loaded with adapted drama. Adapter Sanford Barnett, prohibited by space and time limitations from imitating the far-ranging freedom of movie cameras, had to cut the film script down to a sentimental skeleton. The original film had been aimed at the handkerchief trade; on TV the tear jerking scenes came as fast as in any soap opera. To compensate for his lack of mobility, Director Kulik borrowed heavily from Hollywood's sob expert, Ralph Edwards (This Is Your Life). Just like Edwards...
...skeleton-men were 63 French, 27 Foreign Legion and ten Vietnamese survivors of Dienbienphu who were being repatriated under the recent French-Viet Minh agreement. The stories they told were not calculated to increase good will towards the Communist Viet Minh at a moment when the French were trying to conclude peace. The French put on two relays of censors at Hanoi and Saigon to lessen the impact of the last march from Dienbienphu...