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...those semi-intellectuals who scout among the theatre listings, searching for ripe-sounding films at which they will be able to mock the public taste, to laugh at the wrong times, and to burp obscenities in love scenes, White Christmas will seem a promising tidbit. What unparalleled opportunities for bad taste--Bing Crosby as a lover, Rosemary Clooney as a singer, Danny Kaye as a wise-cracking comic, Dean Jagger as a crusty, kindly old general! All in Technicolor and Vista Vision tool How could it miss...
Before the week was out, the buzz-buzz in Ohio was amplified to a crescendo by another tidbit: Governor Lausche flew from Washington to Seattle in the presidential plane with Dwight Eisenhower. Surely, the pundits reasoned, the President and the governor talked about what everyone else in Ohio was talking about. Suppose they came to an agreement...
...picked up yet another rich companion and helped him buy champagne all over Europe. While at Deauville, she took up with an Egyptian named Pulley Bey, known then, according to the D.A., as "procurer by appointment to His Majesty King Farouk." Pulley took her home to Cairo as a tidbit for the king, but revolution prevented her meeting the girl-prone monarch...
...second feature at the Met, Anything Can Happen, is also supposed to be an "A" film. It isn't. Anything Can Happen is a tedious tidbit about how Georgians from Russia can achieve success in America while still clinging tenaciously to the bizarre traditions of the Caucasian mountains. It relies heavily on pidgin English for its humor and Horatio Alger for its plot, and the net result shows that a cliche, even in dialect, is still a cliche...
...pull on the moving particles and thus speed them up. The top speed reached by particles in the University's machine is about half the speed of light--93,000 miles per second. They travel in an ever-widening circle until they hit the target, an inch square tidbit of metal placed at the outside edge of the cylinder. The atoms in the target burst apart when hit, becoming radioactive in the process. After the bombardment is all over, the target is carried off in a metal can to be studied in electrical, chemical, and photographic tests...