Word: beastes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Beauty & the Beast. It was simple enough, from Miss Bergman's point of view. Look at Charles Boyer since he went to the States, tiptoeing his great abilities across roles too thin to support a minimum human intelligence. Look at all the individual talents, as inimitable and irreplaceable as thumbprints, which had been turned into just so many highly decorative zombies. "Hollywood," she told the press, "has a queer way of taking an individual and fitting her into the American mold. I have worked hard to develop my style and I don't want anything to do with...
...stars went to the soldiers in patriotic bursts of celluloid which World War II has yet to touch. They went in pictures like Hearts of the World; The Kaiser, Beast of Berlin; the wonderful Shoulder Arms and the somewhat less wonderful but far more typical The Little American, in which German soldiers battered at the stateroom doors of the foundering Lusitania in their eagerness to get at U.S. Red Cross nurses. Such films were reportedly shown on hospital ceilings and in rude theaters 90 ft. under the blasts of Verdun. It is hardly surprising that veterans turn up, now & then...
...repaid," he said. Joseph Stalin, congratulating Roosevelt and Churchill, said: "I wish you further successes," and Pravda, in Moscow, talked as if those successes would be accomplished very soon: "The time is approaching when jointly with the armies of our allies we shall break the backbone of the Fascist beast...
...Star, the journal of the Red Army, surveyed the uneasy Russian front last week and predicted a German offensive. Joseph Stalin, in his May Day order, spoke of blows to break the Nazi beast forever, but these were to be joint-and future-blows by the Russians and their allies in the west. For the moment, he couched his more specific instructions to the Red Army in aggressively defensive terms...
...North Africa, and to "one single, common blow" by the Russians in the east, the U.S. and Britain in the west. And they heard him say: "A new blow is approaching when the Red Army, together with the armies of our Allies, will break the backbone of the Fascist beast...