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This testimonial, typical of thousands, is the best explanation of why the networks ignore unkind critics of the soap opera. The housewives love it. Consequently, nearly 40 daytime serials, heard Monday through Friday, fill more U.S. radio time with spurious heart throbs than any other type of show...
...dark blotches in the early frames of your atomic bomb sequence [TIME, Aug. 27] are prints of holes in the photographic gelatin, which resulted from what was perhaps the greatest photographic overexposure ever made in motion pictures. The circles of spurious light in the last four pictures are not ghosts from the nonreflecting coated lenses, but light leaks through a hole designed for a clock or other auxiliary apparatus to be photographed through the side of the camera. The hole had a cover proof against ordinary daylight but not against the super daylight with which the bomb engulfed the camera...
...past . . . attached themselves and their destinies to the Axis. . . . The peoples of the world have learned that Fascist militarists . . . will stop at nothing. ... To defeat them we have paid a staggering price. . . . We shall not forget this lesson merely because petty tyrants are now assuming the disguise of spurious democracy. No longer can a self-respecting world . . . accept a government that rules through violence...
...clever play, with some pointed dialogue and a sophisticated art-gallery air, One-Man Show is spurious drama. It puts slickness ahead of seriousness, sacrifices the characters to the plot. But Jed Harris's shrewd direction-as has often happened in the past two decades-makes the play seem better than...
...Lupe Velez she led a strange and unfettered existence-even for Hollywood. She was very young when she became famous. Her teen-age whims and appetites, her shallow fits of rage and delight remained unchanged. She loaded herself with jewelry. She delighted in entering nightclubs with a spurious dignity. She also delighted in tantrums during which she spat oaths like an angry cat. She loved to go to prizefights, where she screamed advice to the boxers...