Word: uplifter
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...Garment Jungle (Columbia) exposes the bare facts of life in the dress business. As the film begins, a wealthy dress manufacturer (Lee J. Cobb) leaps at a shapely model and rips the frock off her back, seam by seam, until she stands there looking downcast in her uplift. "Look at all these operations!'' he screams at his partner. "If we ran a union shop . . . we'd go broke making this dress." By paying his workers less than the contract minimum, Boss Cobb maintains what garment gamesmen call "The Edge''-a margin of profit that...
...cure all three and rejuvenate her as well. Last week, celebrating his eleventh anniversary as mayor by dedicating an eleven-story, $8,000,000, glass-and-class city hall, "Chep" Morrison, 45, proudly and properly declared his girl well out of danger and enjoying a new uplift from skyline to dockside...
...picture, Actor Hudson spends most of his time exercising the vocabulary of uplift ("Your good deeds are your purest prayers") with the local Confucius (Philip Ahn), and conferring candy bars on an incredibly clean and healthy-looking horde of refugee Korean children. In fact the picture is so ineffably high-minded that the heroine (Anna Kashfi) never finds herself in anything more exciting than the hero's alms. He sends her candy bars too. By the time the lights finally go up, the sugar count of this picture is so dangerously high that theater managers might be well advised...
...Collins, whose only aim in life was to climb to the top of the ladder, kicking off old friends at every rung. Wilkie rebelled violently against his father's way of life-particularly because the elder Collins always deemed his social climbing to be a form of Christian uplift. Consequently, Wilkie developed a lifelong aversion to religion, preferred low society to high, and liked to dress for dinner in camel's-hair coats and pink shirts. He was shortsighted and short of stature, with tiny hands and feet. "Ordinary men," reports Biographer Davis, "could pick...
...stepmother sends her to the woods, but not to be executed. ¶ Pop songs with a "kiddie beat." i.e., reduced intensity, such as Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, or Sixteen Tons, its lyrics altered to explain that coal is mined so that houses can be heated. ¶ Educational or uplift records such as The Alphabet Song, Counting Song (Cricket), good-neighbor songs, meet-the-orches-tra productions, and stories accompanied by adulterated symphonic scores, e.g., Ludwig Bemelmans' Madeline (RCA Victor). ¶ Special songs, which too often turn out to be inoffensive words set to poverty-stricken pop rhythms...