Word: sorts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...graduate of Paris' Ecole Libre des Sciences Politiques, once France's school for diplomats, the new King has never been the easygoing sort his father was. Something of a Puritan who lives a simple life with his one wife, he is a fervent antiCommunist, and is regarded as incorruptible. When the government recently announced that before the end of the year there would be a new constitution that would turn many of the powers of the National Assembly over to the King, everyone understood that power will go to a man who means to be a King...
...since the satyrical heyday of Thorne Smith, Charlie tells the story of a $3,000-a-week Hollywood writer (Charlie Sorell) who spent most of his time in bed with other men's wives and is brought back after death-in the body of Lauren Bacall. "In some sort of jazzy, Old Testament way," says his best friend (Sydney Chaplin), "you're being punished." The show had one ending when it opened in Pittsburgh, another by the time it got to Detroit, will probably have several more before it finishes its two months on the road. The Detroit...
...moon, Lunik swung back toward the earth, began to transmit the pictures. A slow system was used when Lunik was still at a great distance from the earth, a faster system when it came nearer and its signals were easier to receive. The transmission was done by a sort of TV camera that scanned the pictures electronically, line by line, and translated their varying shades of brightness into varying radio signals. The number of lines could be changed to give different degrees of definition. The maximum was 1,000 lines a picture, which yields a definition about twice as fine...
With that sort of talk, it could not be long before the Havana mob went after Dubois. Last week, as he sat writing a story in the downtown office of the American Cable & Radio Co., the throng appeared. Came the chant: "Do we want Fidel?" The answer: "Yes!" The question: "Do we want Dubois?" The answer: "No! To the firing squad!" Ducking out a rear door, Dubois was picked up by a military guard, led through the howling, spitting mob to a taxi and safety at the Havana Hilton Hotel. Back in his room, Dubois made light of the danger...
...process its tail end is somewhat mangled. Up to that point, though, the Roger MacDougall-Stanley Mann script is a fairly witty example of a rare film form: political burlesque. It keeps the show bouncing along despite a director (Jack Arnold) and a star (Peter Sellers, a sort of second-company Alec Guinness playing several roles) who have not mastered the light-fantastic style that suits and supports this sort of flimsy British whimsy...