Word: spectaculars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...people's support because he is keeping his promise to regenerate Mexico and make an end of the filthy sewer of mud that has smothered the national conscience under a certain prosperity these past six years, and has transformed a pedregal [old lava field] into a spectacular oasis for the profit of investors...
...comic device: an almost completely absent chin. Edward G. Robinson is as monotonous and entertaining as ever. An actor who has developed well-nigh infinite modulations of the sneer, Robinson, after 30 years of practice, has at last produced his masterpiece. In Vice Squad, he displays a sneer so spectacular that he can almost be said to smile...
McCarthy managed to make a spectacular brawl of it, even though Doctor Matthews had made himself virtually indefensible by charging, in the American Mercury, that "the largest single group supporting the Communist apparatus in the U.S. today is composed of Protestant clergymen" (TIME, July 13). A longtime McCarthy collaborator, Matthews has been feeding Joe information and suggestions perhaps as far back as McCarthy's first out-on-the-limb blast at Communism in the State Department, made at Wheeling, W.Va. in February 1950. Matthews has been a member of what Westbrook Pegler calls "our cell of Red baiters...
...current history's most spectacular Cinderella story, the life of Eva PerÓn is a logical subject for cinema treatment. Last week a winsome Parisian actress, her blonde hair combed back and tied in a bun as Evita used to wear hers, was in Buenos Aires seeking the leading role...
...wheels-within-wheels complications of war, love and treachery would have stalled a clumsy novelist. But Novelist Waltari is anything but clumsy. Dramatically and lavishly, he paints in the spectacular background-the campfires of the approaching Turks lining the night horizon, the arrival of their army ("a huge, living carpet seemed to cover the earth"), the roar and hiss of the foundries relentlessly churning out the Sultan's culverins and giant bombards. At first, the massive walls of Constantinople seem little affected; then telltale lines begin to streak down the masonry, widening into fundamental fractures and splits. In these...