Word: billboards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Towering over the sidewalk in front of eastern Santiago's city hall is a 40-ft. billboard showing the major landholdings of Oriente province. Under a sun that bears down like a torch, the guajiros, poor farmers from the hills, stand and stare up hungrily at the land they hope to own through Fidel Castro's agrarian reform. They bring contributions to the Agrarian Reform Institute, everything from pennies to axheads to old barbed wire. "I am in accord with Fidel." says Juan Mora, who owns 17 acres, a thatched...
Since Fabiani turned back to music two years ago with the formation of the Lyric, he has been doing all his own casting, drawing mostly on the NBC Opera and the New York City Opera companies, borrowing scenery from Manhattan's City Center. With citywide billboard displays, he challenges Philadelphia's entrenched Grand Opera Co. So far. the Lyric has been no more daring in repertory, will present ten works next season, three of which will be contemporary: Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex, Carl Orff's Carmina Burana (both to be conducted by Leopold Stokowski), and Carlisle...
...picture says no such horrid, controversial thing. According to one billboard, the hero (Montgomery Clift) has a relatively simple problem: "Will he make a good husband?" Though his heart bleeds for humanity, the wound is healed with a kiss, and in the end it looks as though he gets married and lives happily ever after...
Tuesday night an attenuated compendium of Schneider deadbeats returned to prove that in the interim they had not lost their spirit nor their courage. From its opening number, "Billboard March," to its concluding piece, "Pandemonium by All," the band was superb...
...bushy-bearded extras; to reproduce a navy of 33 viking ships-a flotilla only slightly smaller than the Norwegian battle fleet; to man his foredecks with such well-known Scandinavians as Ernest Borgnine, Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh; and to hire, as the big name for his billboard, Actor Kirk Douglas...