Word: stunts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most of what the 21st annual awards told of the state of the cinema in 1948 lay in the presentation shindig itself. Planned in Hollywood's new economy, the affair was low-budgeted and undersized compared to past performances of the town's most profitable yearly publicity stunt. Only two searchlights cut into the overcast outside the theater; half a dozen blocks away, three Hollywood searchlights blazed gaudily for the opening of a new self-service gas station...
...Union Committee, recalling last year's near election of a fictitious freshman, Frederick B. Applegate '51, merely on the strength of distinctive campaign posters, now meets every evening at 7 p.m. to judge each poster and campaign stunt before its public appearance...
...citizens want a revision. Curley's opponents were aware that any change in the municipal government of Boston would hurt the Mayor. His present machine is still relatively new and weak; based as it is on the present set-up, a new charter could destroy it or at least stunt its growth badly...
...Albers admits, "I am concerned with emotion in spite of everything. Some of my things are sorrowful, some are jokes." His favorite stunt is no joke to Albers. At first glance his paintings look rigid and definite to the point of dullness, but there is nothing definite about them. Through tricks of contrast and perspective he makes the shapes in his painting shift and change as the looker looks, even makes the colors take on varying hues. "You see I want my inventions to act, to lose their identity. What I expect from my colors and forms is that they...
...Stunted Growth. Slichter maintained that corporate profits should be even higher. The only way to tell whether profits are excessive, he held, is "the community's [need] for expanded output and productive capacity." That need Slichter assessed at $70 billion "at present prices." To cut corporate profits now, he implied, would stunt the country's economic growth...