Word: wilderness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...newcomers wasted long hours arguing about whether they or the Republicans had got stuck with the sunniest seats in the legislative chambers, once flew off to the Big Island to watch an eruption along the slopes of Mauna Loa. While the Democrats fiddled, crusty, Eisenhower-appointed Territorial Governor Sam Wilder King sat back and waited for them to run out of time. On the 50th day of the prescribed, 60-day 1955 session, Sam King vetoed the only two Democratic bills. This so disorganized the bewildered Democrats that they squabbled along to the end of the session, had to stop...
Some Like It Hot. Marilyn Monroe comes spectacularly out in the open, and Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon go into hiding-understandably enough, since the lads are impersonating ladies in Billy Wilder's top-of-the-mark comedy...
...Alcoa Theater (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). Comedian Jack Carson, as a brash wildcatter, struggles with an even wilder urchin...
...heading for it all his life. He was reared in the giant shadow of his brother Huey-the Kingfish, a Louisiana legend as living tyrant and assassinated martyr. Earl Long hated his place in Huey's shade. To prove himself a better man, he merely proved himself a wilder one. In his role as a man of the people, he casually cleaned between his toes at press conferences. As a political fighter, he once sank his teeth into an opponent's throat. He billed himself as "Ole Earl," and. if he never became the national figure that Huey...
Dealing with subjects as homely as breakfast, gossip, and walking home from school, actors are very likely to betray the fact they are acting, but this presentation of the adult world of Grovers Corners was nearly flawless. Wilder's characters remind you of people you know, despite differences in dress and accent. And the cast, especially Dixi DeWitt (Mrs. Webb) and Edward O'Callahan (Dr. Gibbs) made these characters real, in Wilder's sense of universal types...