Word: spectaculars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nothingness makes no headlines. By last week, the Geneva Conference was pretty generally a story played down and tucked away on inside pages. June 1954 might still prove to be a catastrophic month for the free world, but because it involved neither spectacular deed nor memorable word, it could not compete with television on Capitol Hill or the lure of the next motel...
...himself. His mother had stopped nagging, he said. Like a good boy, Tommy had been trotting ten miles daily on the Rockaway Beach boardwalk. In Stillman's Gym he had been pushing sparring partners around as he polished up his wild assortment of slaps, jabs, backhanded cuffs and spectacular double uppercuts. He had bothered little with the big bag. "Phooey to that," said Hurricane. "I like to box with guys. A big bag can't punch back. I like to get hit. Then I fight better. When I'm hit, yeah man, that...
...that his bad periods border on ineffectiveness. He wants to retire soon, but his obsession is to do it as the Great Peacemaker. For long, he dreamed of a dramatic personal meeting with Stalin or Malenkov, a "parley at the summit." Now, Churchill has settled his hopes on a spectacular Asian compromise as a suitable valedictory gesture...
STOCK-MARKET TRADING is relatively light compared to 1928 despite the market's spectacular rise. Wall Street's 2,000,000-share daily volume is close to what it was in 1928, but U.S companies now have four times as much stock (3 billion shares) outstanding, of which only 1% is traded in a month's time, v. 11 % at the peak of the 1928 market...
Three Coins in the Fountain (20th Century-Fox) is another CinemaScope travelogue-this time making a wide-screen tour through Italy. Completely dwarfed by spectacular shots of Venice, Tivoli and Rome is a feeble little plot about a trio of American girls who spend a tedious 102 minutes getting their men: Dorothy McGuire wins Novelist Clifton Webb (wearing a henna rinse); sultry Jean Peters gets a sure-enough Italian, Rossano Brazzi; Maggie McNamara captures Prince Charming in the person of Louis Jourdan. Why any of the six is so set on marrying any of the others is never satisfactorily explained...