Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reluctant Witnesses. The British authorities could not tolerate this sort of intimidation. They decided to bring Reimann to trial for "encouraging discrimination against Germans who cooperate with the Allies." But they failed to police Düsseldorf's courthouse adequately and the Reds went into their act; they turned the hearing itself into a propaganda demonstration...
...result was a compromise. Papagos was in as generalissimo, free to act without interference from the politicians. Sophoulis would head the new government as titular Premier, but the work of holding it together would be entrusted to a younger deputy Premier: 74-year-old Alexander Diomedes, economist, Byzantine scholar, novice in politics. Some Athenians professed to see a portent in the fact that, on the day the new government was formed, a two-headed baby was born in Piraeus...
...States to consider Venezuela's refusal to let ex-President Romulo Betancourt leave Caracas' Colombian embassy, where he had been since the coup. Replied the junta: 1) Betancourt had just been given a safe-conduct, and Chile knew it; 2) Chile had been guilty of an "unfriendly act" in even mentioning the subject. To make it stronger, the junta called its ambassador home from Santiago...
...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 do something they don't want to do themselves. For instance, I want to push a green so it looks red." Isn't that a rather experimental approach? "Yes, all my work is experimental...
...Act of Violence (M-G-M), a realistic, tight-knit study in fear, hatred and revenge, is a well-made movie melodrama. Director Fred (The Search) Zinneman, who gets as much power out of his lens as if it were a fire-hose nozzle, deals this time with a deadly game of hide & seek. The fugitive is an ex-bomber pilot (Van Heflin) who once betrayed a group of fellow prisoners to curry favor and food in a Ger man prison camp. Stalking him with a maniacal single-mindedness is Bombardier Robert Ryan, the only survivor...