Word: streetcars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...well he at least walked in the sunlight. He didn't complain when his bus was late, when it poured on his way to Longfellow, or when he was trapped in Filene's revolving door. And the time his date's heel caught and broke in a streetcar track he cheerfully carried her home. He enjoyed House food, loved breakfasts at 8:15, and even liked the Lowell House bells. He read Thurber, collected Charles Addams, and was content to sit alone at night listening to Dylan Thomas recordings and drinking black coffee from his electric percolator. Or would have...
...revolution, civil war and tyranny. The poet-doctor is driven across the face of Russia, is loved by people who lose him, and greatly loves a woman named Lara whom he loses. A broken man, he finally dies of a heart attack after he steps off a Moscow streetcar...
Cleft in the Rock. What Holly is looking for is what Streetcar's Blanche DuBois was looking for, "a cleft in the rock of the world." She seems to find it with a Brazilian diplomat named José Ybarra-Jaeger, but a scandal of which Holly is innocent breaks over her blonde head and Ybarra-Jaeger checks out. In that heartbroken moment she is defenseless and touching. " 'But oh gee, golly goddamn,' she said, jamming a fist into her mouth like a bawling baby, I did love...
...Roof is the fifth of Tennessee Williams' works to be put on the screen, following The Glass Menagerie, The Rose Tattoo, A Streetcar Named Desire, Baby Doll. In his four earlier films, Williams seemed to need a warmup of two backward steps before he could take one step forward, but at least the movement was visible and real. This time, Adapter-Director Richard Brooks has been able to put very little motion in his motion picture. His Cat is a formaldehyded tabby that sits static while layer after layer of its skin is peeled off, life after life...
...Peronistas, and the rank and file still remember the lavish raises and featherbedding privileges that the Peronista leaders won. Even during the days of the provisional military regime that preceded Frondizi, the Peronistas held on to control of many unions. They now boss 90, including the powerful meat packers, streetcar workers and textile workers. In the new elections they will probably take over most of the 26 unions currently bossed by anti-Peronistas and the 22 unions now run by Communists or Socialists...