Word: vistaed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...century did architects set out more consciously to create their own unique vision of a brave new world than in the 20th century. Frank Lloyd Wright's prairie houses were meant to open on a new democratic vista, where individualism and variety could prevail. In Germany, the Bauhaus scrapped pilaster, pediment and ornaments and created buildings with flat roofs and walls of glass. In France, Le Corbusier prophesied skyscraper cities where man's habitation would be "a machine to live...
...Shaggy Dog (Buena Vista) of the title is a real, live, winsome, mop-footed old English sheep dog named Chiffon (real name: Sam) that opens doors and dresser drawers, climbs ladders, sits commandingly at the wheel of a speeding car, and even gargles before going to bed at night (on the sound track, anyway). Unhappily, Producer Walt Disney tells his shaggy-dog story so doggedly that he soon runs it into the pound. The story: a Renaissance ring that has the power to put a human being into the body of an animal falls into the hands of a teen...
Sleeping Beauty (Buena Vista), if she could see what has happened to her in this full-length feature cartoon by Walt Disney, would wake up screaming. As on a couple of previous occasions (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Cinderella), Moviemaker Disney has tangled with an innocent and lovely old folk tale, and this time he can be charged with a particularly unpleasant case of assault and battery. The story itself, as preserved by Charles Perrault, is a legend that elucidates one of life's darkest mysteries: how the human soul lies sunk in a deathlike trance until...
Ahead of the U.S., after Mikoyan's visit as before, stretched the familiar grim vista of struggle-not quite war, certainly not peace, but a course to which the U.S. had long since become accustomed. Against the standard prospect, President Eisenhower, in the budget and the Economic Report that he sent to Congress this week, stressed the nation's need to look to the health of its basic source of material strength: the U.S. economy under the free-enterprise system. For fiscal 1960 the President submitted a balanced $77 billion budget. In his Economic Report, he asked Congress...
...according to his lights, left the youngsters plenty to work with. They had a $6,000,000 production nut to crack, along with "a million-two" ($1,200,000) set aside for promotion. They had Vista-Vision, Technicolor, five big stars (Charles Boyer, Charlton Heston, Claire Bloom, Inger Stevens and the berugged Brynner), 55 featured players, 100 bit-players, 12,000 calls for extras, 60,000 props-including 15 authentic pirogues, $100,000 worth of genuine antique furniture and two boxcarloads of Spanish moss and cypress trees. Not to overlook one of the best true-adventure stories in American history...