Word: version
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gathering places across the U.S. they recognize each other when they hear such terms as "bahli-bahli" ("hurry up"), or "no sweat." Their password is a mangled version of Arirang, the Korean folksong taught them on a quiet night by ROK soldiers in the bunkers. The badge of their fraternity is the fatalism by which they say, when things go wrong: "That's the way the ball bounces...
...incredibly short run. Eventually he hopes to show that it will take off at 15 m.p.h. inside 25 ft., hover motionless at a 23° angle and land within 25 ft. Custer, who has spent 20 years perfecting his plane, plans to sell a two-engine, five-passenger version...
...three-dimensional attractions of its two leading ladies, this is a rather flat cinemusical. This version adds flashy songs, dances, Technicolor, a present-day setting and a happy ending to Anita Loos's famed 1925 bestseller about the fine art of gold digging during the jazz age. It also subtracts much of the original's satire, intelligence...
...takes some of Hollywood's silkiest purses and, without half trying, promptly and efficiently turns them into sow's ears. It has a beautiful star (Ava Gardner), yet somehow manages to make her seem drab, and a basically exciting story (bandits v. ranchers) which, in this version, has no more suspense than a mystery story read backwards. Ava is the wife of a handsome, brave, wooden-faced Texas rancher (Howard Keel), who gets into a feud with a Mexican bandit (Anthony Quinn), a fellow who uses vino as a gargle. This bandit has a lieutenant, a handsome, brave...
Call Me Madam. Ethel Merman sparkplugs a big, bouncy movie version of her Broadway hit musical about a lady ambassador (TIME, March...