Word: turning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Carmichael, Attenborough, and Maleson all turn in slick comic performances, and Jill Adams, as Sally Smith, is sweetly seductive. All in all, the Boulting Brothers have dealt another subtle blow to the humorless corpse of time and institution, and college audiences and old ladies alike chortle in appreciation...
Before the Southern Governors' Conference in 1951, a bushy-haired, boyish-looking newsman stood up and spoke unpalatable truths. Said he: "We cannot turn our backs upon injustice simply because a black man is its victim. Nor can we find a safe retreat in the sort of legalistic buck-passing that recognizes the existence of an evil but insists it is somebody else's responsibility...
...says Al Bernsohn, vice president of the 5,000-member National Appliance and Radio-TV Dealers Association. In a recent sampling, 70% of the members polled reported an increase in broken appliances from the factory. Railroad-salvage salesmen bucked them on to cut-rate retailers, and the discounters in turn passed them on to the public, leaving the independent repairman to handle any troubles...
...Down Payment suggests some shocking answers. In this picture the dream houses of a short-drive-from-the-city development known as Sunrise Hills turn out to be nothing better than air-conditioned nightmares. The point is illustrated in the lives of eight inhabitants of this magnificently planned slum-four young couples "thrown together," as the book's blurb explains, "in the devastating intimacy of a four-house courtyard...
...mouse, and was "as useless as a penguin with his hands." In part, it was a Latin love call that Caitlin could not resist ("those wonderful whirlpools of dankly greasy, black grass hair, that it was an insult to the Creator not to fondle"). Caitlin recalls every turn of their sometimes amusing, often pathetic affair. Elba proved as strait-laced as Laugharne, Wales, and the time came when the hissed words "Prostituta, prostituta" sounded in her ears...