Word: thrilling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from the time he entered Copenhagen's Technical University. At 24, with a diploma and a Danish wife and daughter, Strobel immigrated to New York. At the 1939 New York World's Fair, Strobel, the fair's chief structural engineer, tested the amusement section's thrill-ride contraptions by taking the first spin on each. During World War II, he designed prefabricated Army barracks and portable airplane hangars. His Manhattan firm of Strobel & Salzman has a variety of edifices to its credit, including shopping centers, railroad stations, factories, hospitals, churches, and the cosmotron building...
...deceptively undramatic. Golfers do not run or jump or kick or pounce or pound or shoot off firearms. Their play seems unhurried, gentlemanly, almost oldfashioned. Yet, in the pursuit of the little white ball, men find an extraordinary challenge to muscle and mind, the test of skill, and the thrill of chance-taking. They also find camaraderie and relaxation. To some, golf may merely mean the smell of freshly mown grass and the sight of the sudden, wind-blown hill. To some, it may just be a pleasing setting to sell insurance...
Actors Johnson and Martin ably handle the second thrill sequence: the guiding to safety of a pilot who has been blinded by antiaircraft fire. Director Andrew Marton wisely keeps the wisecracks to a minimum, while the Ansco Color and a skillful interlarding of Defense Department film give moviegoers the illusion of knowing exactly what it was like to make a bombing run on Wongsang...
...amazed at the acoustics in that fabulous country, wide angled on the screen as never before." Possibly MGM never thought thought about the outdoor acoustics, so they would be glad to have one more feather in their bonnet. Another good one in the same vein is, "The unparalled, unexpected thrill of Rose Marie in Eastman Color can only be matched by seeing if nature's coloring in Canada is really that...
Actor's Muff. On one level, the film v. live-TV fight is an artistic squabble. Producers and directors of such live shows as Studio One, U.S. Steel Hour and Philco Goodyear TV Playhouse argue that the theaterlike thrill of live TV cannot be captured on film, and that live performances hold more excitement and spontaneity. Replies Film-Maker Hal Roach-"Who wants to see a stagehand in the wrong place, or hear an actor muff his lines? That's what spontaneity means...