Word: yondering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Somebody Loves Me (Paramount) is a humdrum musical that strings 20 songs, including Way Down Yonder in New Orleans, On San Francisco Bay and Wang Wang Blues, on a story line "suggested" by the show-business careers of Husband & Wife Team Benny Fields and Blossom Seeley. According to the picture, popular Songstress Blossom (Betty Hutton) marries unknown Vaudevillian Benny (Ralph Meeker). But Benny resents being "Mr. Blossom Seeley," and insists on making good on his own before he does a duet with Blossom. With his wife's help, he finally makes the grade in the big time, and they...
...Visit to Mars is mildly in the modern science-fiction vein. The Martians, it turns out, are not only supermen but super-Christians, who have attained a state of grace. The only graceless, earthian thing about them is their dialogue. Sample; "Our church is over the brow of yonder eminence...
...machine is the latest gadget of the power garden tool business, an industry that has sprung up like crab grass since the war. All over the U.S. last week, men were revving up their power mowers and heading into the wild green yonder with all the enthusiasm of fighter pilots climbing into the sun. Children were cleaning up as much as $75 a week, making the neighborhood rounds with the family machine. Sears, Roebuck reported it was selling one power mower for every two non-powered machines...
...Moscow, the Boss's son warmed up with dialectic ballyhoo for Soviet Air Forces Day. Declaring that the Russians had invented the airplane and the helicopter, Lieut. General Vasily Stalin, 30, zoomed further into the wild blue yonder. Said he: "How miserable and colorless are the air shows in the capitalist countries ... On the very face of it, the bourgeois airman, who is both a bandit and a businessman, has little in common with what we call an air festival. Our airmen carry life and happiness on their wings...
...your statement that "flying has become so commonplace that the call of the wild blue yonder has lost some of its appeal to the nation's youth." The problem is not that flying has become commonplace, but rather that it has been made very unattractive. The Air Force has been stolen from the flyers...