Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...legal realism on the screen arrives when the newsreel is projected with stopped action until most of those suspected are convicted. Now the brothers lose their nerve, shocked by the hate blazing in Joe. Even Katharine, who has just found he is alive, leaves him when he refuses her appeal to save the men he has condemned for his own murder. The judge is about to pronounce sentence when what is left of Joe's conscience drives him into court to undo his own reflection of the lynchers' fury. Reminiscent in its power of last year...
Blue Bedroom was planned "to give the effect of sleeping on a cloud"-a dark blue rug, fading blue walls, light blue ceiling, plenty of mirrors. Bachelor's Bedroom, to "appeal to a bachelor in search of a bedroom," was painfully ugly, notably in an iron bed "amusingly decorated in red and white bed ticking." "Drama" came from a crimson carpet. The firm's explanation of the room's confusion was that it was for "a person who has collected interesting things, from time to time." Georgian Dining Room fell back on the reliable bright turquoise blue...
...death have prevented war between France and Italy, may they be blessed!" he screamed, brushing back his hair and consulting a handful of notes. The presiding judge interrupted to re-mark that M. Maurras would have an opportunity for a political speech when his first sentence comes up for appeal this week. Without pausing for breath, deaf M. Maurras ran on: "Personally, I am for the sacred sanctions of the kitchen knife.* M. Blum is not the master, to send the people to the slaughterhouse." Unwilling to let this remark go unanswered, the judge stood up, leaned across the bench...
...bill Dr. High not merely as the Democracy's political chaplain but as President Roosevelt's personal Richelieu. "It is to be an evangelical cam-paign," predicted Van Slyke. "Mr. Roosevelt will preach sugary sermons on brotherly love and the new social order, without making the direct appeal to class distinction and class hatreds as obvious and bitter as in his spring speeches. The new line is to be highly idealistic, so lofty that mere matters of budgets and taxes, debts and New Deal failures will be made to appear crude and vulgar. . . . The chief custodian of this...
...impartial mind. First, any film out of America dealing with British policy and action is likely to be colored with a strong anti-British twist, for in the United States this country is always in the wrong. Secondly, peace is questionably served by pictures which make a crude appeal not to any moral instinct, but to physical fear...