Word: supplement
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the standpoint of the televiewer, pay-as-you-see promises great benefits: better shows and no commercials. Broadway shows and top sporting events now kept off the air because of the promoters' fear of falling gate receipts would be telecast. First-run movies would supplement the antiques now filling the screens; opera and ballet, which seldom come into the living room, could be telecast. Pay-as-you-see could put the Metropolitan Opera on a solid financial basis. And pay-as-you-see, instead of keeping audiences away from such events, might stimulate as much interest in them...
Like Michael Maccoby I found T. S. Eliot's The Confidential Clerk an engrossing puzzle. I am not writing to supply the Greek myth Mr. Maccoby could not find, but rather to mention one or two things concerning the play which supplement the interpretation he gave...
...when he rode into Los Angeles flourishing a fat roll of $500 bills, reported that he had just found a fabulously rich Death Valley gold mine, hired a special train to take him to Chicago, and jovially flung $100 tips to the crew. Thereafter he was a Sunday supplement standby. Revelling in his own publicity, he lived in a $2,000,000 Moorish castle in Death Valley, once rode through the streets of Manhattan in a buckboard with a kegful of gold pieces between his knees, left behind a trail of $50 bills whenever he hit town. In 1941 Scotty...
These episodes are the exception in a film which skillfully used reality to supplement melodrama. Although opportunities for exaggeration and heroic scenes are available, Mireille Balin as Gaby, and Line Noro as the jealous native Ines, help preserve the film's subdued brutality not only in their acting, but in their hard, brittle appearance. The result is the original Casbah adventure, still perhaps the most exciting in a long series of copies...
...take up odd jobs. One runs the local community-chest drive, another works for the Masons, still another serves as a part-time consultant to a big Colorado cattleman. The former head of the chemistry department has worked as a printer in a Fort Collins print shop, but to supplement his monthly $37.14, his wife must baby-sit. Professor G. A. Schmidt, author of six textbooks on agriculture, has worked as an 80/-an-hour land appraiser, and Entomologist Miriam A. Palmer, an expert on aphids, receives only $39.97 a month after 48 years of service. Professor Burton O. Longyear...