Word: thunderers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thunder of 100 guns died away; the ragged beat of engines jockeying in formation filled the air. The first plane bore a gigantic picture of Stalin. A 96-plane formation of civilian flyers spelled out Slava Stalinu (Glory to Stalin). Twenty-five light trainers soared through a huge loop. "The famous airman Nesterov was the first to make a loop of this kind," boasted the rich loudspeaker voice. "Stand guard over our beloved country. Glory to our youth, glory to our country...
Hitting the Fan. The general, back in uniform, responded from the steps of the Capitol with a hard-hitting speech full of oratorical thunder, which raked the Administration up one side & down the other. He accused the Administration of appeasing Soviet Russia and thus inviting World...
...pictures the ordeals and triumphs of the Christian martyrs in Constantine's Rome. Made in Italy three years ago with French and Italian actors romping toga-clad through elaborate sets populated by 7,000 extras, the movie has been dubbed into English and shrewdly released to steal the thunder of such forthcoming spectacles as MGM's Quo Vadis and 20th Century-Fox's David and Bathsheba...
Unfortunately, Fabiola has little thunder of its own. Though Adapters Marc (The Green Pastures) Connelly and Free Pressburger have lopped away half of the picture's original three-hour footage and reworked the rest, the story is overplotted confusing and lacking in dramatic force Only in the grand-scale scenes of the closing minutes, when the gladiators and lion; are turned loose on the martyrs, does this film develop any real excitement. Up to then, it dawdles turgidly over a tame counterfeit of Roman debauchery, an involved political-religious intrigue and a routine love story that pairs a patrician...
What caused the unprecedented crash of eight planes at once was a mystery. Survivors were sure that the thunder & lightning were not responsible. One pilot reported that his engine had exploded, another that his had "just conked...