Word: bitted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...playing Pretty Girl Milking the Cow on a harmonica. It was far from pastoral. Whenever he can, he visits Manhattan "to see my reflection in the windows and rub elbows with the crowd. I take in all the newsreels too, and I think they influence my work quite a bit. Movies are really the master medium...
...play has its faults (it lags and sags and sprawls a bit), and its limitations-it is less a play than a show, with a show's quick turnover of impact and emotion. But it is a show well worth seeing...
...their bridal night Stephen gets drunk and breaks down her bedroom door. Although they seem to do nothing but snarl at each other from then on, this refined bit of symbolism results in a son. As a sort of judgment against them, the son is born clubfooted. Stephen works hard to make a man of him-too hard to suit mother. Eventually the little boy, hearing his parents quarrel, falls downstairs and dies. The stockmarket does the same...
...pretty bad pictures these days without half trying. But almost any one of them, no matter how atrocious, contains some little twist of plot, a line or two, or some bit character perhaps, that goes against the general grain of inanity. All this is usually true, but Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer this week has made it all too clear that the exception proves the rule. For, no matter how hard you may try, you can't possibly find anything about "Desire Mc" that merits praise of any sort...
...reels of indecision), the husband shows up and the two men have the customary brawl on the customary cliff-top. You have but one guess who it is that falls into the briny deep. And that, in toto, is all there is to it. Just to make things a bit easier for the duller cinema-goer a convenient cue to the action has been supplied whenever anything important is about to happen the weather always produces a windstorm or a fog or a thunderstorm. When nothing important is going on the weather clears off, naturally. Garson's back...