Word: version
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...result would have been different had the recordings been used to impeach verdicts or incriminate jurors, and properly so, as such use of them would have converted the project into another version of Mr. Justice Holmes's "dirty business." The purpose of the study, however, was no more than an inquiry into the different ways juries reach their verdicts, some of them proper and some of them, to the dismay of lawyers now and in the past, altogether improper. But just as they may be trusted on practical problems, the judges and lawyers may be trusted to tell the difference...
...other presentation is a delightful version of Don Giovanni, that suave master of conquests--some 1003 in Spain we are told. In Mozart's opera the action covers just one day, but the Don tries like the devil to up his total by four or more. Naturally, he ends up with the devil himself and sinks out of sight to the accompaniment of the Underworld's trombones and smoke...
Last year a Roman studio produced Ulysses, a $3,200,000 version of the Odyssey, but the title role was played by Hollywood Actor Kirk Douglas, and the picture was released in the U.S. by Paramount Pictures. The Iliad is now presented in a $6000,000 production in full color by Warner Bros., but the picture has an Italian heroine, and was actually filmed in Rome's big Cinecitta. In both cases, the blind poet, who wrote as well as any man for the mind's eye, has been translated for the camera's with all possible...
What do surgeons say during an operation? In the Hollywood version their speech is tense, clipped. A new recording by Folkways Records of an actual operation in an eastern U.S. hospital shows that, in reality, surgeons sound like expert mechanics bent over a balky V8. Thus...
...aluminum-roofed Brougham (base price: $8,500) is G.M.'s answer to Ford's Continental Mark II, and features such gadgets as a driver's seat that pivots outward for easy access. Highlights of the dream cars: Chevrolet's Impala, a five-passenger hardtop version of the 225-h.p. Corvette sports car; Buick's transparent-topped Centurion, with a TV camera in the back instead of a rear view mirror. In its Kitchen of Tomorrow exhibit, G.M.'s Frigidaire Division showed an experimental dishwasher that cleans by sound waves and a marble-topped range...