Word: nickelodeon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...great American nickelodeon," Will Rogers called the Post. During the early decades of the century, it brought humor, sentiment, pragmatic soothsaying and a touch of romance into millions of households. In smaller towns, especially, it was the prime medium of family entertainment. But it was more. In its pages, readers saw reflections of themselves-or, at least, reflections of what they liked to think of themselves. The Post's greatest editor, George Horace Lorimer, insisted that "editors must be ordinary men"; and it was the values of ordinary men-cozy domesticity, a sense of humor, a belief in decency...
...financial boss of the company until 1956; of cerebral hemorrhage; in Miami Beach, Fla. "Pictures," said Abe to his brothers one day, "ought to be a pretty good business to be in." So in New Castle, Pa., in 1906, the sons of a Polish immigrant butcher bought themselves a nickelodeon theater and by 1917 were cranking out their own silent films, soon moved to New York and then to Hollywood, where the saga went on until 1956, when they sold their controlling interests in Warner Bros, for $22 million...
...relief by Sculptor James Earle Fraser, has suffered little depreciation. Chief Big Tree has so much mettle, in fact, that he traveled down from his home near Syracuse, N.Y., to help the Chase Manhattan Bank observe the 100th anniversary of the first U.S. nickel. The celebration featured a nickelodeon, a cigar-store Indian and a carrousel buffalo. Alas, the original beast on the nickel's flip side was turned into a robe...
...Griffith's ideas were politically naive," she continued, "but the movie is a master-piece. It brought the motion-picture industry out of the nickelodeon stage. We are presenting it as an artistic document...
...illustrate the virtues of Ford Econoline vans, the boxy-looking, eight-door vehides that closely resemble Volkswagen Micro Buses. Keaton, chased by the law, dashes in and out of a whole lot full of Ford buslets, finding pies in one and hurling them into the cops' faces while nickelodeon music plays and oldtime titles point out things like "easy loading and unloading" and "fast getaway...