Word: jaggedly
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Shock-haired, baggy-trousered British Poet Stephen Spender was also off on a nostalgia jag. "Science has provided man with the means ... of complete destruction," he told a Harvard poetry conference. "What has always been the essential condition for creating poetry-the assurance of a continuity in civilization-is lost...
...hitting a jag-time tune...
...sense of period and locale, right down to Peck's droopy mustache. But, like its outlaw hero, it comes to a bad end. Its plausible air lasts until the final scenes; then the hero goes out of character and the picture goes off on a little sentimental jag to treat him like...
While most of the U.S. movie industry was prudently cutting production costs at home last week, its biggest studio was on a spending jag in Rome. Using $4,000,000 in blocked Italian lire and $1,000,000 in frozen sterling (for British actors), M-G-M began production on what promised to be the most colossal film spectacle of all time...
...Monuments. Most of the buildings would not even add a jag to the city's skyline. No one planned soaring towers like 1932's Empire State, or sumptuously spaced units like Rockefeller Center. Now buildings were built for quick profits. "We're not in this business to build monuments," said one contractor...