Word: spectaculars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Democratic Party used to be strong on tight organization and spectacular brawls. Last week, at the Democrats' off-year convention in Chicago, organization politics was hardly visible, and there were no brawls...
CHRYSLER, which made its major body changes in 1953 models, is concentrating on more horsepower and spectacular experiments in color. When its 1954 cars come out in October, the top-price Chrysler's engine will have 235 h.p., the most powerful reported to date. Moreover, Chrysler is using its own torque-type automatic transmission (similar to Buick's Dynaflow) as standard equipment in Chrysler and DeSoto, and optional in Dodge and Plymouth. Chrysler is also going after the woman driver with bold use of color on interior fabrics, and new body-finish colors touted as the flashiest...
...Robe would have been a good movie in two-dimensional black and white. In CinemaScope, which uses a wide-angle lens to throw its picture on a curved screen nearly three times the normal width, it all but overpowers the eye with spectacular movie murals of slave markets, imperial cities, grandiose palaces and panoramic landscapes that are neither distorted nor require the use of polarized glasses. In CinemaScope closeups, the actors are so big that an average adult could stand erect in Victor Mature's ear, and its four-directional sound track often rises to a crescendo loud enough...
...capture of the speed record (held by the U.S. since June 19, 1947) gave a big lift to the Farnborough show, the world's No. 1 aviation exhibition. The show itself was as spectacular as ever, with radical-shaped aircraft cavorting all over the place. Best eye-catchers: two white Avro Vulcans, delta-winged bombers that look like great albino sting rays sliding through the sky (see NEWS IN PICTURES). The Gloster Javelin day & night fighter was another impressive delta wing...
...cattle barons and the hapless homesteaders. Macdonald Carey plays the hired gunman who slaps small boys, makes roughhouse passes at the beautiful saloonkeeper (Joanne Dru), and shoots harmless people dead. For all the gunplay, the film limps along from anticlimax to anticlimax, but moviegoers may be beguiled by some spectacular Technicolor scenery. As the U.S. marshal who goes to the rescue, John Ireland sets some sort of precedent by losing all his fist fights and getting shot down in the final gun battle with Badman Carey, who is then done in by Joanne...