Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Illinois Department of Mines and Minerals. Medill had sought political contributions from mine owners. He had refused to listen to an inspector who had pleaded that the Centralia mine be closed as a deathtrap. Medill resigned in a hurry-but Lewis showed no interest in him. He was after bigger game...
...Winston Grill served cocktails from a bar hardly bigger than its baby-grand piano. The renovated Club Norman (once a servicemen's hangout and now Toronto's only real nightclub) had two bars: a Circus Room (striped awnings, murals that featured animals and weightlifters) and a Starlight Room (a synthetically starlit ceiling, oval bar, an imported floor show). Some 2,300 shoved into the club on opening night...
...many more "rank & file" Virginians. Last week President-Elect Darden held a three-hour peace talk with student leaders, to convince them that he was not proposing a fate worse than death. He assured them that he would not let Virginia's traditions get lost in his bigger & better University...
...bigger dance numbers, arranged by Leonide Massine, are only moderately exciting, but Massine stomps and silhouettes himself through one fine routine and he has coached Vera-Ellen into a splendid frenzy of ruffles. A ringing, all-Latin score by Cuba's Ernesto Lecuona includes several probable hits (Another Night Like This, Mi Vida, Giu-Pi-Pia, etc.) and a wild, magniloquent chorus as the camera honors some beautiful Costa Rican landscapes. Lecuona's music overwhelms some of the movie; it enriches much of the rest with the pleasantly itchy stitching of guitars...
...Bigger than Life. In part because it concentrates on making its political points this film is as little like an ordinary movie as could be imagined. But Eisenstein, the artist, never gives way wholly to Eisenstein, the propagandist. Every movement in it is exciting, but, springing as it does against the tensions of near-standstill, it is exciting as if a corpse moved. Besides restricting motion in his movie, Eisenstein has also fought shy of realism. All of his characters, their faces and their gestures are superhuman rather than human. Most of the action takes place as closely within palace...