Word: outbursts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Full of Life. Judy Holliday has a baby and gets married in a wonderful outburst of mirth about birth; with John Conte, Salvatore Baccaloni (TIME...
...machine, he sits at a tape console with a panel of twelve buttons, plus controls for quality and volume. Each button fades in a different shade in the whole spectrum of laughter and applause, e.g., a male belly laugh, scattered titters, the out-of-control shrieks of women, the outburst bellowing up to thunder. The engineer plays his machine like an organ, rehearses right along with the cast, tailors the laughs snugly to the lines. He does away with the fuss and bother of a studio crowd, its distracting noises and unpredictable ways of laughing in the wrong places...
...Drive. Minutes after Meany's outburst, the 29-member A.F.L.-C.I.O. council, with Dave Beck the sole dissenter, adopted a new and revolutionary code on government investigations into labor racketeering. Its point: although every individual has the constitutional right to plead the Fifth Amendment if called to .testify, union officers who take the Fifth have no right to hold their jobs. The policy is now binding on all A.F.L.-C.I.O. affiliates and locals under threat of expulsion...
...outburst of anti-Americanism in Britain in recent weeks, Macmillan believes, is a bad sign, and he is grateful that it was not matched by anti-British feelings in America. A tendency to blame the other fellow is usually a sign of one's own weakness and lack of self-confidence. But while anti-Americanism is mainly a bad sign, it may also be a sign of something good in Britain. There is something patriotic in it. There is self-respect in it, too, and it's not entirely a bad thing if a lot of Britons think...
Crumbling Defiance. In the U.N.'s East River headquarters, this defiance of the U.N.'s will sparked an outburst of indignation. With Krishna Menon marching at their head, 21 Asian and African nations quickly introduced a resolution which called upon Britain, France and Israel to "comply forthwith" with the General Assembly's demand for immediate withdrawal from Egypt, and expressed "grave concern" that they had not already done...