Word: weirdly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...authorize the state "to extend public ownership in any industry or part of industry which . . . is found to be seriously failing the nation." Presumably even this was a sop to the Bevanites on the study group that prepared party doctrine. For instead of nationalization Gaitskell now favors a weird plan for the government to get part way into private business. He would have the government acquire shares in some or all of the 512 firms with assets of $7,000,000 or more, which, the report says, account for almost half of all profits earned by British private industry...
...beautiful three-ton jewel of muzzle-loading artillery, falls into the hands of an illiterate guerrilla chieftain (Frank Sinatra) after being abandoned by Spain's routed army regulars. Sharing his ordeal of moving the gun overland, through French-commanded passes and along sen-tried back roads, is a weird ally, a spick-and-span British navy gunnery expert (Gary Grant), who, believing that war is a gentleman's affair, is appalled by the barbaric tactics of Sinatra's uncouth band. Italy's Sophia Loren, as a busty errand girl, is a dispensable part in a story...
...night in question, nurses and midwives had told each of the mothers the sex of her baby, but because each had had a hard time at the birth, neither mother saw her child naked until she was ready to take it home. By then a weird Gilbert and Sullivan baby switch had apparently taken place. When Mme. Piesset, whose only daughter had died only three years before, found that the boy baby she had called Guy was in reality a girl, she thought it an act of providence, and pursued the matter no further. Jeanne Derock, on the other hand...
...rubber in the game of enlightened self-interest; his beautiful and enigmatic secretary. Gemma; and his top research man, a brilliant mixed-blood scientist who secretly aspires to be "a Napoleon of the black masses." As these and other characters converge on Luala, Colquhoun stumbles on a series of weird goings-on-sacrificial rams and totemistic moles and a mysterious concourse of natives performing rites by a river bank. At Luala, near the sacred rock Bamili (where sacrifices had probably been held since the time of Queen Nefertiti), Colquhoun discovers that those who come under the shadow of this...
...artist of his time. Ferocious bronze owls glare from under the palms, a huge stone head of a woman lies in the basin of the fountain, plywood pipe-players are scattered about the lawn. Inside, the three main rooms are jammed. Canvases crowd the walls, spill out of crates. Weird ceramics stand in disheveled confusion on the floor. The rest of the space is taken up by a litter of objects that Picasso collects compulsively, objects that may set him off on a new theme or be incorporated into a new sculpture - a hollow elephant's foot filled with...