Word: backes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hollywood can claim no credit for the shattering magnificence of the combat scenes in Task Force. But for the sharp-eyed selection, and the patient cutting and pasting which brings history roaring back into vivid, living focus, it can claim a knockout...
...finds them: a giant, when Don Quixote attacks, turns into a windmill, and lays the knight flat on his back; the next time the giant, when he slashes at him, turns into a row of wineskins and fills the inn with his blood; a hostile army, when the knight does battle with it, turns into a herd of sheep, and the shepherds stone him almost to death...
Fate grinds him small. The mighty Knight of the Lions (as he now calls himself) is laid up for a week by the claws of a pussy cat. He is paraded through Barcelona with a placard on his back...
...Back in the U.S., Putnam joined the Communist Party, did a literary column for the Daily Worker, was an associate editor of the New Masses, kept on translating (Novelists Ignazio Silone, Georges Duhamel) and writing his own books (Paris Was Our Mistress, Marvelous Journey). He spent eight years with the party in "misguided humility" before he quit...
...shambles of sight gags, unfinished sentences and self-applause, Milton Berle last week returned to TV. Before a banner screaming: "Welcome back, Mr. Television," he raced through a brilliantly paced and enthusiastically vulgar show (Tues. 8 p.m., NBC-TV). There were some better-than-usual jokes (Berle poking his head between the curtains to ask drowsily: "Porter-what station is this?"), and plenty of corny ones (the first stooge to come onstage spit water in Berle's eye). But, as usual, whatever Comic Berle said or did reduced the studio audience to helpless shrieks of laughter. Even Berle...