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...early 1950s that Leo Stefanos, a Greek immigrant who owned a corner candy store in Chicago, produced the first DoveBar, a huge stick of top-quality ice cream dipped in premium chocolate. He had no grand plans for the new treat. Recalls Leo's son Michael: "My father invented it to keep me and my brother from running after ice-cream trucks every time we heard them ring their bells." But in 1984, seven years after Leo's death, Michael and a group of partners decided to take the DoveBar nationwide. The result may put the Stefanos name...
...Mike Newell, who has worked in British and American TV; and Insignificance, directed by Nicolas Roeg from a play and screenplay by Terry Johnson. All three films are ferociously critical of Britain or its thunder-stealing ally, the U.S. All are set (at least in part) in the 1950s, when postimperial Britain shrank into the Brave New Nothing-very-much-thank-you. All have, ironically, reinvigorated British cinema and helped restore it to world-power status...
Ruth is a woman both of her time and out of it. Like a 1950s moll, she indulges men's fantasies of the blond bombshell; like an '80s woman, she is spikily determined to come to them on her own terms. This sexy, witty film has the texture of a '50s B movie: these are small, doomed people viewed unsentimentally as they take their sport in cramped bedrooms or walk along soot-swathed streets with murder in their eyes. Though Richardson has the showstopper part, Holm is the class act here. With his finicky mustache and sad, knowing eyes...
...continues to flourish more than three decades after it was supposedly doomed by television will come as a surprise only to those who confidently predict the demise of every old technology the minute a new one comes along. Although radio was forced into the background by TV during the 1950s, the medium did not die; it merely took on new forms. As TV became the nation's main purveyor of mass entertainment, radio turned predominantly local and aimed to please smaller, more specific segments of the audience. The whole family might gather around the TV set at night, but people...
...said no. Finally, Coulter said haltingly, "I'll get back to you." "Coulter never got back to us," McKeown triumphantly noted, "but for the record, like Iraq, Canada sent no troops to Vietnam." What he didn't mention was that Canada did send noncombat troops to Indochina in the 1950s and again to Vietnam...