Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pathos is supplied when one of Tufts' buddies gets killed in action and another comes home blind, but most of the way the movie tries to be funny, without too much success...
...that covers the ground with dead insects, the disgusting blooms that throb with sensual palpitations. . . . Stretched from tree to palm in long, elastic curves, like carelessly hung nets [the lianas catch] falling leaves, branches, and fruits, [hold] them for years until they sag and burst like rotten bags, scattering blind reptiles, rusty salamanders, hairy spiders . . . the comejen grub gnaws at the trees like quick-spreading syphilis . . .; everywhere is the reek of fermentation, steaming shadows, the sopor of death, the enervating process of procreation...
...Gamble, the blind, tyrannical spiritualist, was listening to her hired companion, husky-voiced, Madonna-faced Veronica Thwale, absently read aloud from the works of Sir Oliver Lodge. Mrs. Thwale's mind was mainly absorbed in mulling over her favorite dream-in which her father, a Church of England canon, was crucified by a troop of Boy Scouts...
...slogan "Come out, come out, wherever you are," any friends of Tom E. are assured of a welcome here. Bob "Studs" Berra leads the Chase Democratic Committee. In a late press release he vows that in spite of any talk to the contrary, his men are completely color-blind, on principle...
Nowhere was there a man who hated the Russian regime more deeply than Mannerheim. But nowhere was there a man the Finns were more likely to follow with blind faith. And the Russians are realists. Only Mannerheim could make a crippling peace and make it stick. But the Kremlin was not in a waiting mood. It was reported to have given the Finns twelve days to decide whether to negotiate for peace or face a resumption of the Red Army's offensive...