Word: versa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...violence is parodied too, but in a sly way that permits the moviegoer to lick his lips over the horror just before he sees the humor of a situation-or vice versa. One moment, for example, the audience is snickering at a dumb chorine, and the next it is staring aghast at her lifeless body in a bathtub that seems at first glance to be full of raspberry soda-very picturesque in Metro-color. And during a mob war, when a punk catches a packet, does he do the conventional clutch-and-crumple? Not at all. He explodes...
Because "men cannot visit women in their dormitories and vice versa," the Summer School assists social life by providing Common Rooms and operating a Messenger Service. "But," Miss Williston explained, "men can send messages to men, or women to men as well. We don't check the sexes...
...nearly $2,000 in hotel tabs paid by Goldfine. Adams testified that "particularly when driving, it was an accommodation to me to stop overnight on a trip from my home [in Lincoln, N.H.] to Washington and vice versa. Mr. Goldfine on one occasion said to me, 'If there is any time when you would like to stay in a suite which I have in a hotel in Boston, I hope you will occupy it, because it is there, paid for, and I would be glad to have you enjoy the accommodations.' This...
...most potent force in U.S. moviemaking is a pair of Manhattan lawyers: Robert Benjamin, 49, and Arthur Krim, 48. At a time when things in Hollywood are going from bad to worse, they have demonstrated a new way to make fat profits and good pictures-or possibly vice versa. When, in early 1951, they took over United Artists, one of Hollywood's oldest and biggest film-distributing companies, it was losing $100,000 a day. Last week, in the first annual report since a public stock issue last spring, President Krim reported record profits...
...Allyn Ferguson (who wrote the note on the jacket and was considerate enough to quote himself at one point), seem competent enough, but the effect of the two working on each other destroys more than it gives. Words blot out the music, and, as they say, vice versa. Patchen claims to have thought up jazz and poetry, love and marriage. Kenneth Rexroth, across the street and down the hill, claims the same thing. They both would do well to forget the unhappy, er, nuptuals...