Word: smoothed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...song & dance turns, mercifully free from television's usual determined chatter. Ballerina Bowman, who dances to such popular tunes as Over the Rainbow, is usually left too breathless by her own performance to do much more as M.C. than announce the name of the next act, e.g., a smooth vocal quartet called The Pastels. The closing commercial was as original as anything on the show: a woman's restless legs were propped against a wall while her voice described over the telephone the new Coach & Four shoes she was wearing...
Irving Wexler had only his own two hands to work with when he started his career in Manhattan's lower East Side. He used them to such smooth advantage in picking pockets that he became known as "Waxey" to his friends and the cops, took on the name of "Waxey Gordon" as he advanced through stickups, slugging, dope and murder charges into the big time. With Prohibition, Waxey muscled into a string of big New Jersey breweries, made his adopted name a byword in the world of Al Capone, "Legs" Diamond and Dutch Schultz, and wallowed in a life...
...tricky subplot that as glibly poses and solves the Negro problem. At best an uneven treatment of a touching subject, the movie courts an audience that may have found The Men too disturbingly bitter a pill; some moviegoers undoubtedly will prefer its soothing blend of easy sentiment and honey-smooth solutions...
...spillway, 1,650 feet wide, the great Columbia River sweeps majestically, a curve of green water up to 17 feet thick. It falls so far (320 feet, twice the height of Niagara) that it seems to fall slowly. The roar of the falling water, though loud, is as smooth as the sound of surf on a distant beach...
...power line from Bonneville Dam, lumberjacks brought down a ponderosa pine. Tied by a shriveled leather thong, high in the treetop was the answer to the mystery of Kamela: a bronze cattle bell, inscribed with the date 1878. It carried the words "Saignelegier"-"Chiantel"-"Fondeur." Its clapper was worn smooth by years of gentle tinkling. The people of Kamela guessed that a pioneer had tied it to a sapling that grew into a towering pine...