Word: thumbs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wild Is the Wind (Hal Wallis; Paramount) makes a reasonably honest, week-end farmer's effort to turn the warm loam of natural life. Director George Cukor, though obviously a city feller, has managed to provide himself, for the occasion, with a conspicuously green thumb. Producer Hal Wallis has provided the movie with Italy's Anna Magnani, an actress as earthy (and sometimes as mysteriously beautiful) as a potato; with Anthony Quinn, an actor so radically natural that not even 20 years of Hollywood has spoiled him; and with a screenplay by Arnold Schulman that veers with...
...salt pan was removed and the bone flap replaced. (It would grow back solidly into the skull in three or four weeks.) By the time the patient was wheeled back to his room, the uncontrollable tremor, the involuntary bending of the arm and turning in of the thumb on the right side had disappeared. In a few months, both patients will return to Iowa City for treatment of the ansa lenticularis on the right, to halt the Parkinsonian movements of their left sides...
...Germany saves 22%, Canada 24%, Peru 21%, Austria 24%, Iceland 31%, Norway 29%, Israel 22%, Japan and Italy 20%, the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland 34%. On the other hand, Chile saves only 8%, the Philippines 7%, Indonesia 5%, and many other underdeveloped countries even less. A rule of thumb is that any country with a rising population must save at least 10% of its current production for investment if it hopes to make progress in raising the living standard of its people. If a nation saves from 10% to 15%, it can expand rapidly...
...scene, neither Freud nor the hovering Anna nor a physician could get it into his mouth, and the surgeon who devised the monster had to be called. When it fitted tightly enough to fulfill its purpose, it caused recurring sores. When it was comfortably loose, Freud sat with his thumb to his face, holding the monster in place...
...Indonesian proclamation of independence. Though some officials professed that all was now in order, neither of the two leaders seemed overly enthusiastic at what they had achieved. But the conference seemed to settle one point: Indonesia's army, long regarded as completely under Sukarno's thumb, has become a political force in its own right-and one that by no means sees eye to eye with the President...