Word: blende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...liberty first shone over this part of the country. It is we, up here, who are privileged to start the new Norway. It is we, up here, who must call the tune. If it rings weakly, at least it must ring true and pure. Then it will blend, one day, with the great symphony which shall well out over the land...
...perpetually wistful expression and querulous British accents that marked McDowall's success in "Lassie Comes Home" hardly blend into a background of ranch life. In spite of his undeniable ability, his unable to act convincingly as a rugged and rural American youth. A Swedish hired hand, left over from Mary O'Hara's book, seems equally out of place. The best characterization of the entire movie was turned in by a horse, whose name we do not remember seeing in the cast of players but whose role was nevertheless the longest and most complex...
Following "Oklahoma" and "Sing Out, Sweet Land," "Dark of the Moon" stands out as an utterly different variety of Americana that banks for its appeal not on song or humor or tone alone, but on a coherent blend of the three. It steals into the imagination in a salty sort of way at the opening curtain and leaves one feeling he has really glimpsed a hearty chunk of our nation's spirit...
...Amigos ('TIME, Jan. 25> 1943)> this full-length film was made in the interests of hemispheric good will. The good will is entrusted chiefly to Donald Duck, who expresses it in terms of an alarmingly incongruous case of hot pants. Thanks to an ingenious but seldom very rewarding blend of drawings and regular color-movies with living actors, Donald whizzes from one Latin American beauty to the next like a berserk bumblebee. Since he remains at base a combination of loud little boy and loud little duck, his erotomaniacal regard for these full-blown young ladies is of strictly...
...Union sacrèe of France's Government and her Communists was symbolized by an anonymous Catholic priest, who closed the four-day session by playing his new composition: a melodic blend of the Marseillaise and the Internationale...