Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Going Home. The U.S. flyers broke all records for such operations. The bright autumn sky over ancient Peiping drummed with the 20th-Century roar of twin-engined aircraft as the planes swept down on the airfield, hour after hour. They disgorged their human cargo, taxied to gas pumps manned by Hopeh coolies, hopped off and were on their way south again within 50 minutes...
Fallen Angel (20th Century-Fox) drags its feathers through an hour and a half of melodramatic fiddle-faddle that is just promising enough to sharpen the edge of disappointment. Good direction by Otto (Laura) Preminger and competent acting cannot quite save a picture whose whole is far more trivial than the sum of its individual parts...
...Bolsheviks "preached a doctrine in some ways reminiscent of the gospel of Jesus, a doctrine in the spirit of the Declaration of the Rights of Man." But few will disagree that the Russian Revolution "inaugurated the era of collectivism, the most frightening, powerful and misunderstood phenomenon of the 20th Century." Author Scott believes that socialism is inevitable (" . . . if the Soviet Union, by some miracle, were to fall tomorrow into the Arctic Sea, the collectivist revolution . . . would not stop"), and that capitalism, as now practiced in the U.S., must soon go the way of the dinosaurs...
...Dolly Sisters (20th Century-Fox) is a nostalgic, casually biographical cinemusical based on the careers of the Hungarian immigrant twins born Roszicka and Jancsi Deutsch. The Dolly Sisters, professional song & dance artists, cut a merry swath through a crop of heavy spenders in the days when one way to drink champagne, supposedly, was out of ladies' evening slippers. Jenny Dolly (now dead), more spectacular than Rosie, once broke the Casino at Cannes, won 12,000,000 francs in two days of baccarat at Le Touquet and skinned a notorious character named Amletto Battisti of 5,000,000 francs...
...rida maintains that many of the wiggly goblins and squat blobs which appear in paintings like Time Has Stratified Eternity are derived from ancient Mayan and Tarascan art forms. To 20th-Century eyes they look more like something seen through a microscope. Though they seem easy, Mérida gets his striking half-old, half-new effects after painstaking study; the raw, vivid colors are invariably surprising, and the figures, however grotesque, seem very much alive. Some of the paintings were the result of a visit to Texas. "The land there is as flat as a sea," says...