Word: armes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...killers, a 52-year-old former SS master sergeant named Josef Gabriel, faced justice for wholesale murder in Galicia. Early this month, to escape trial, Gabriel had hurled himself from a third-floor courthouse landing, but he survived to hear witnesses describe how he held Jewish children under his arm while blowing their brains out with a pistol. Likely sentence: life imprisonment...
...gravelly brogue, Melvyn Douglas makes him an amiably puckish buffoon but scarcely a Dublin Falstaff. O'Casey's Juno has a spiny tongue for her shiftless husband, but she is also an Earth Mother of Sorrows. Her unmarried daughter becomes pregnant; her son loses an arm to the British and his life to the I.R.A. Shirley Booth puts a barbed disenchantment in her lines that neatly deflates humbug and windbag alike. But she carries her tragic life more like extra luggage than a cross...
...there he was, all grinning and friendly, holding out his arm generously so people could almost touch him. It was the Beantown's golden boy! He had on a simple green tie, and held one arm around his nice young wife, who sat right up on the back of the seat with him. Someone yelled, "Our next President," and everyone screamed and clapped...
Director Ritchard's situation and sight gags in Lulu are best. In one lively scene, Lulu routs the duchess by prancing into Marcel's bedroom flailing a pair of fireworks sparklers; in another, an impassioned lover avidly kisses Lulu's clothed arm to the elbow, then fastidiously spits out the green fuzz...
...glass panels of the shut door, one can see into the court-wigged heads, writing hands, the judge enthroned, red-robed, heraldic like a king of cards; the back of the doctor's head and neck solid above the parapet; counsel in shadow-play shooting out an arm; lips moving soundless, all silent, sharp, like fish inside a bowl...