Word: mountingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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North by Northwest. Alfred Hitchcock's latest cliffhanger (the cliffs are on Mount Rushmore), thoroughly entertaining and suspenseful, with Cary Grant up to his immaculate collar in spies and counterspies, Eva Marie Saint and James Mason among them...
...Slasher. Sprinting quarter horses over dirt tracks around the Southwest, Ussery learned to get a horse away fast at the start. By 16 he was ready for the thoroughbreds,, drove his first mount to victory in the 1951 Thanksgiving Handicap in New Orleans. Within months Ussery was a big-time jockey, with a reputation as a slasher who bulled his way through the field like a fullback. Ussery used the whip so much that some jockeys hated to mount the horse he had ridden because the animal tended to sulk. Not until last year, when he was set down...
...sumptuous orgies in palaces that look like the new banks of Beverly Hills; John the Baptist is beheaded in 70-mm. Panavision, color and stereophonic sound; and "the temptress" (Martha Hyer) moves about murmuring to Herod Antipas, "You thrill my inmost being." There is also the Sermon on the Mount, delivered by an offstage voice in soft-sell tones. There are stabbings, hurricanes, ambushes, chases, the miracles of Christ, racial conflict between Arabs and Jews, one case of polio and a death by charcoal burner...
Smoothly troweled and thoroughly entertaining, North by Northwest wears its implausibilities lightly, bobs swiftly past colored picture postcard backgrounds from Madison Avenue to South Dakota's Mount Rushmore, the U.N. Secretariat to George Washington's wattles. As the story begins. Adman Gary Grant has little on his mind but Trendex and his waistline (he reminds himself to "think thin") until enemy agents mistake him for a U.S. counterspy and kidnap him from a cocktail lounge in the Hotel Plaza. Spy Ringleader James Mason (as polished and heavy as a Kremlin banister) invites Grant to spill all he knows...
With the thought that climbing an old-fashioned ramp to board a jet plane is like using a ladder to mount a race horse, American Airlines last week introduced the first true jet-age boarding system. At a cost of more than $100,000, it put into operation at San Francisco's International Airport a system of "jetwalks...