Word: phantoms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Phantom Weight. In Ogden, Utah, police investigated a theft from the Union Pacific yards, tracked down and arrested Marlin Lamar Tullis, 27, and a friend, accused them of making off with 116-ton Diesel heavy-duty switch engine...
...above New Jersey's swamplands Plainfield Teachers' spires Mark a phantom, phony college That got on the wires...
...painlessly but surely inside the viewer's head. To make the dream come true, two young companies are peddling "subliminal perception," the psychological phenomenon whereby a sight too fleeting to register consciously takes root subtly in the viewer's subconscious mind. This technique could flash phantom plugs on the television screen at speeds too fast (around one three-thousandth of a second) for the viewer to realize that a Madison Avenue Rasputin was selling him beer not only between the rounds of a prizefight but between the very punches...
...brainwashing was already being practiced on unsuspecting viewers. All three networks hastily denied that they had touched the Orwellian gimmick developed by Manhattan's Subliminal Projection Co., Inc. and Experimental Films Inc. of New Orleans, but some network executives seemed curious and interested. If the FCC discovers phantom plugs on the air waves, explained Doerfer, it must still make up its mind whether it has any control over them. But Representative Dawson is champing to introduce a bill outlawing any such tampering with the viewer's psyche...
...Hunchback of Notre Dame, the organ-playing ghoul of The Phantom of the Opera, the sad clown in He Who Gets Slapped, Chaney proved the possibilities of escaping oneself. As an artist might rush to his easel to sketch the characters he had encountered in a day, Chaney would go home to his makeup kit and superimpose upon his own flesh the faces he had studied in police courts, water front dives and cafés. With putty and plaster, collodion-created scars, false teeth, wigs, facial clamps, cotton stuffing and rubber dilaters, Actor Chaney would be somebody else...