Word: screening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...something of a chore to sit through. The viewer receives the impression that he is watching a document, an amazing document to be sure, but not an entirely absorbing one--and thus his eyes keep drifting over to the blue rimmed clock at the side of the screen. One can see the beauty of the camera work, the delicacy of the composition, but one can stare in dull amaze for only so long...
...amazing turnabout. Still recovering from his swim off Palawan Island, bedeviled by the destroyers, Kurita broke off the action, headed back through San Bernardino Strait. Said Admiral Clifton Sprague later: "The failure of the enemy ... to completely wipe out this task unit can be attributed to our successful smoke screen, our torpedo counterattack . . . and the definite partiality of Almighty...
...week-a bankroll that supports sleuths ranging from a corn-fed country operative named Hannibal Cobb, who appears in five-minute syndicated slices, to a brand-new sunburned entry, Hawaiian Eye, with a mixture of lets and lead, and a full hour on the screen. As the corpses pile up in the living room, citizens who know crime only from the tabloids follow the Eyes like men on the trail of their most desperate hope. And as the evenings pass, one Eye blurs inevitably into another, a TV trouble that even an honest repairman cannot cure...
...reappeared in the newspapers to plead innocence or cast suspicion, and TV reporters wrote reams of copy designed to show that they had really been in the know all along, considerable suspicion piled up against CBS's $64,000 programs, Question and Challenge. Even the great, granite TV-screen image of New York's Manufacturers Trust Company, with its dignified vice president and two uniformed guards, turned out to be hollow; the bank had guarded the questions all right, but had only the word of the producers that no one else had seen them. But the implications...
After moving the team from his own 30 to the Crimson 15, Gundy, with the call of the day, pulled off a perfect screen pass to Rozycki, who scrambled untouched to the goal line...