Word: subway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...need to eliminate background noise. Kresge is not menaced by anything quite so formidable as the subway that runs near Carnegie Hall, but M.I.T.'s city campus presented problems. Kresge is insulated by outer glass walls, curved entrance ways, rubber stripping on doors...
From the Golden Pagoda, the tourists drove on to visit the cave where, according to a dream Premier U Nu had two years ago, Buddha once dwelt. No cave existed there, so U Nu ordered one made. "The roof leaks," commented Comrade Khrushchev. "You should visit our Moscow subway. You will find it dry because we built it properly...
...this saga of Superman on horseback is impeded by a horde of females. First onscreen is dewy-eyed Karen Sharpe, who trembles like a subway grating each time Bob goes roaring past. Next comes imperious Jan Sterling, manageress of a gaggle of dancing girls at the Palace Saloon. Jan has a secret: she is Mitchum's estranged wife, and soon they are exchanging the barbed dialogue that veteran moviegoers recognize as the Hollywood hallmark of true love. Eventually, while his enemies steal up on him from two directions, Mitchum takes that long, long walk down the deserted cow-town...
...juiceless book is not the only culprit. The music is chiefly loud, and at their best Robert Alton's dances are just conventionally lively. Actress Channing is only intermittently victorious. She has her real moments, with her round, seemingly lidless eyes or her rumbling subway of a voice; she can pronounce a word as though bending it in two or rush feverishly about her various farm chores as though running bases in some mad game played on Mars. But her large-limbed wackiness. so wildly wrong for Gladiola Girls and Lorelei Lees as to prove wonderfully right...
...buses. Traffic in the Square will become a little more congested, and the carbon monoxide fumes a little thicker. But down below, the lights will still cast their eerie shadows, and footsteps will rattle in the sooty vaults to the same regular, timed changor and roar of the subway...