Word: anticlimaxes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Curtain. Cabled TIME Correspondent Jack Belden: "For the soldiers who had fought so bitterly a few days previously in the barren mountains to the west, the finale in Sicily seemed an anticlimax. In Messina the doughboy was lost; there was no one to fight. Private Hays Cathey stood in the street, hardly knowing what to do. 'That's all there is, there ain't no more,' he commented. Then, he sat on a debris-littered curbstone, opened a tin of cheese and disregarded everything...
...thinks that the ether has been broken and that CBS can now go ahead to air other topical problems (inflation, black markets, etc.). To lend the race program authority, CBS had gotten Wendell Willkie to close it. The fact that his warm plea for tolerance was definitely an anticlimax was perhaps the best indication of the program's merit...
...sense of anticlimax was felt in the Western world. It was a natural view for Occidentals. But to the Indian people a great tragedy had been averted. And, to their minds, Gandhi's fast had 1) revived India as a United Nations problem affecting the entire military and political future of the East; 2) again enshrined Gandhi as a saint; 3) brought rival political and religious groups together...
...using fraud and deceit in their eagerness to get on the jury-concealing the fact that they had already made up their minds about the case. But after a conference the judge dismissed one juror and ordered the case to go on-saving the show from a dreadful anticlimax...
Since the "Maltese Falcon" every Humphrey Bogart picture has been a bit of an anticlimax, in spite of the fact that they've all been better-than-average gangster movies. "The Big Shot" is no exception to this rule. Getting off to a bad start with rather a trite flash-back, it soon picks up speed in telling its non-too-original story of a gangster who tries to go straight...