Word: rocking
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Peace and calm is no way to raise a child to fame and fortune. A home should rock with passion, roll with turbulence, all of it caused by a violently opinionated father who in his own time is a failure. His awed and admiring son will then spend a creative life avenging father...
Love at First Sight. One of Reichenbach's most successful efforts is his musical score; The Marines opens with rock 'n' roll, drowns out roaring sergeants with soaring cellos, beats jungle drums during bayonet drill, concludes with Beethoven's Grand Fugue. That kind of startling contrast has become the trademark of the many-talented, Paris-born moviemaker whose first creative work was collaborating on songs, some of them for Edith Piaf. In 1947 he visited the U.S., fell "crazy in love with that country," stayed on for five years as a consultant to art museums...
...some Kennedy advisers, that fact alone was enough to eliminate Fulbright from consideration. (Said one: "We can't have a Secretary of State from Little Rock.") But as the moment of decision neared, Jack Kennedy still thought that Fulbright's talents outweighed his drawbacks-and that all the other top contenders also had drawbacks. He went off to Florida, still open to argument, still showing a strong inclination for making up his own mind...
...Cleopatra Crumbles. The movie insurance field has long since settled down to less gimmickry and more dollar volume, but it still has claims to color. One actor actually insured himself against falling in love while making a picture. In 1957 before the cameras of Jailhouse Rock, Elvis Presley produced an inguinal heave so seismic that it traveled to his upper jawbone, loosening a tooth cap that fell into his bronchial tube ($2904) During the filming of The Young Lions, Marlon Brando spilled a pot of hot tea in his lap, developed an embarrassing infection ($33.806). Spartacus cost Fireman...
...Belt Co. sells a paving machine that squeezes concrete out like toothpaste onto a roadbed without laying any pre-built forms. It slides its own form along with it eliminates twelve to 15 men. General Motors Euclid division developed a machine with giant hydraulically operated teeth that rip out rock at considerably less cost than blasting...