Word: awkwardnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...penny cinemalpractice which such a title normally suggests. It is, to be sure, a story of wartime juvenile delinquency, and a rather scrambled one at that. But Youth Runs Wild, for all its clumsiness, is remarkably full of warmth, of life, and of real cinematic sensitiveness. Credit for its awkward grace is due in part to a round dozen of its little-known players, in part to its scripters and director and cameraman, but most of all to 40-year-old Producer Val Lewton, nephew of Alia Nazimova...
...minutes past 3 on the afternoon of Saturday, August 26, General de Gaulle bent his tall, awkward body below the Arc de Triomphe and laid on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier two bunches of flame-colored gladioli. The flame at the tomb still burned. De Gaulle laid a Cross of Lorraine, fashioned of white roses, beside the gladioli, and stood at attention while a bugler sounded Aux Marts (taps...
...Like Father, Like Son." Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith (Eddie Bracken), an awkward, befuddled but eager son of suburbia, is the "hero." Given a rousing send-off by fellow citizens of Oakridge, Calif., he marches confidently off to war, only to be ignominiously bounced out of Marine boot camp because of his chronic hay fever. Burning with shame, he thinks of his father, Hinky Dink Truesmith, a hero who died gloriously at Belleau Wood on the day his son was born; of his mother, so proud and radiant, weeping on the station platform; of the brass bands tootling and banners proudly...
Dragon Seed (M.G.M.) is a kind of slant-eyed North Star (TIME, Nov. 8). A two-and-a-half-hour picturization of Pearl Buck's best-selling novel (TIME, Jan. 26, 1942) about China at war. Often awkward and pretentious, it nevertheless has moments of moral and dramatic grandeur...
...session they gathered in Governor Warren's lakefront suite on the 14th floor of Chicago's Stevens Hotel. The Governor, sitting at the green-baize-covered table at the front of the room, read aloud his letter of refusal to the Oregon delegation. There was an awkward silence. Then up rose grey, dignified Byron C. Hanna, lawyer and former president of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce. He said...