Word: train
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Permit Nationalist commando units to train on the tightly sealed-off Pacific islands of Saipan and Tinian...
...Nights on the Train. While Massachusetts' Henry Cabot Lodge, Pennsylvania's Jim Duff, Kansas' Frank Carlson and others worked front & center, Brownell toiled behind a desk and behind the scenes, as usual. In running three campaigns for the Republican nomination and three for the election, he has never spent a night on a campaign train. Says he: "The manager . . . should be at the telephone at national headquarters, far enough away to get a bird's-eye view...
...spears in the corner of his room, he remarks, "After driving sixty miles up and over the Andes, we took a forty-foot mahogany canoc down the river, shooting at random crocodiles. . . I didn't bring any snakes back but I picked up a tiny marmoset monkey. On the train from New York, in the dining car, I had him inside my coat. And the waiter, who had just set a fruit salad on the table, suddenly saw a long hairy arm reach out from my chest and clutch a grape. He gaped in horror and almost upset somebody else...
...inimitable sound effects in the laboratory scene of The Man in the white Suit: the greatest train wreck ever filmed in The Greatest Show on Earth; the scene in The Quiet Man in which Barry Fitzgerald walks into the newly weds cottage after their fast night and finds the broken bed; the climax of the Crimson Pirate a perfect parody, during which a balloon and a submarine attack a square rigger...
...some instances, however, this technique is quite effective. A train slowly putting its way from the back ground toward the camera, a group of men climbing an embankment on top of which sits the camera, a lion moving toward the camera through a field of tall grass these scenes utilize three dimension in a way to make it more than another fad, but until the industry can control this new technique, Bwana Devil will be mercy the first in a cervices of audience sensations...