Word: becloud
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...drawn quick comparison to Shoeshine, Vittorio De Ska's 1947 Italian classic. The comparison, apparently based on the similarity of titles, is unfortunate. The two films move in opposite directions-Shoeshine despairingly toward the lower depths, Boot Polish wistfully toward the light. More importantly, their coupling might becloud the fact that Boot Polish is a nearly flawless little gem of a fable that glows with its own brilliance, without need of outside illumination...
Worthy accused Cartwright of trying to "becloud the issue of freedom of movement and freedom of the press," and further explained that there was no need for his going to an objectors' camp, since he was found to be eligible for 4-F classification because of a duodenal disorder...
Worthy denied all of Mr. Cartwright's allegations, while admitting that a Boston draft board had classified him as a conscientious objector in 1943. He charged the State Department with "trying to becloud the issue of freedom of movement and freedom of the press by raising an irrelevant matter...
...quite true. Based on a book written by Air Marshall Sir Victor Goddard, the story recounts an incident which actually happened. This fact is never mentioned in the film, although it gives the story more meaning than all the spurious philosophical conversations manage to contribute. They only becloud and reduce the picture to a mildly successful thriller...
...nothing. He was father confessor to scores of Harvard students who, he thought, had a sincere desire to be writers. But when it came to sham-either academic or political-he could be merciless. Occasionally, his reputation for sounding off on everything, whether big or small, tended to becloud his reputation as a serious scholar...