Word: slices
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Faces: while stone-bald Matyas Rakosi engulfed the Social Democrats, and began slicing up the opposition with his "salami tactics" (a slice at a time), Nagy gave Communism its soft face. Appointed Speaker of the Hungarian Parliament, he made a reputation as a "sincere" and "earnest" speechmaker, taught agrarian science at Budapest University, published books on theology, made no protest when his daughter married a practicing Protestant clergyman. By sitting around Budapest cafes fingering his soup-strainer mustache, talking soccer and politics, hinting that there were other methods of doing things than those adopted by Russians, he cultivated "liberal" attitude...
Anthony Boucher, the editor of Fantasy in Science Fiction, represents the second important viewpoint. As he maintains, "Non-slice-of-life fiction gives the author a chance to spotlight and to examine in greater detail certain aspects of human behavior." This could rightly be called the literary viewpoint. Boucher, it might be added, is the mystery book editor for the New York Times...
...Peace lasts 3½. The Ten Commandments, which Cecil B. DeMille expects to release in the next couple of weeks, tops that by a long quarter-hour. In such company, Producer Michael Todd's mighty slice of Jules Verne's 19th century globaloney, since it is only two hours and 55 minutes long (not counting intermission), seems a relative runt; but what the thing lacks in length it more than makes up in what showmen call "holler...
...share of the market. But in 1957, Chrysler will be loaded for bear. Cautiously, Colbert himself says only that "our sales targets have been projected on the basis of an expected steadily increasing demand for our products." But Chrysler's brass clearly expects at least a 20% slice...
...slice of Texas life, Giant is something an audience can really sink its teeth into. As in life, what happens is not so important as how it happens, and thanks to Director Stevens' precise and sensitive control of the whole production -script and setting, color and sound, camera and actor-almost every moment in this movie happens with the sort of one-damn-thing-after-anotherness that carries a conviction of reality. The actors, for example, are amazingly well behaved. Rock Hudson and Elizabeth Taylor, neither of whom has been widely hailed as an outstanding acting talent, keep thoroughly...