Word: spectaculars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whilom whooshes toward the unknown. Spang in the middle of a firm prosperity, the production pattern of three decades is dissolving. The mighty major studios, which have dominated U.S. moviemaking since L. B. Mayer founded the M-G-Mpire, have been brought to humbling terms by a spectacular revolt of the stars. Hollywood, which thought it had seen everything, is seeing something new beneath the California sun: the cinemogul with a profile...
Naked Sea.The saga of a tuna clipper: a fish story with some spectacular truth in it (TIME...
...look at the pictures but to keep warm." Last week a plumper Bernard Buffet, nattily turned out in English tweeds, rolled up to Paris' fashionable Drouant-David Gallery in his chauffeur-driven Rolls-Royce. He stepped out to the cheers of admirers and the triumph of a spectacular one-man show. Even before the formal opening, all of Buffet's 26 oils had sold for fat prices. Across the Seine, a Left Bank gallery sold out its stock of 30 Buffet watercolors. Bernard Buffet's take for the week...
Coffee-vending machines have also had a spectacular postwar boom, particularly in big offices and plants where workers take staggered coffee breaks. Though many workers still object to the taste of coin-machine brews, a Dallas company recently started selling a $2,000 machine that stores fresh coffee at 185° in heated Thermos jugs. The dispenser is so successful that Mobile Kitchens, Inc. installed 62 in Washington, D.C. last year, and is putting in new machines at the rate...
...Steinway one night last week, many in the crowd in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall felt they were about to listen to the best living pianist. All of them knew that they were to witness a notable musical event: the last of the great romantic performers in the spectacular tradition of Liszt and Anton Rubinstein* had set himself a schedule of no less than 17 major works in a series of five concerts in 13 days-all the concertos of Beethoven and Brahms, plus ten works by Mozart, Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky, Grieg, Liszt, Chopin, Falla, Franck and Schumann...