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Easy to Wed (MGM) is polished and mounted with all the technical wizardry and great expense that M-G-M lavishes on its most precious jewels. The fact that this film is basically a blob of paste will not keep it from making its rich manufacturers considerably richer. The unbeatable ingredients: lively music, Technicolor, fine feathers, romance, colossal production numbers, slapstick, four big, sure-fire stars...
...practicable method of enforcing party discipline in Congress, a Senator or Representative is inclined to vote for local interests rather than for national welfare. Illustrative of this unpleasant truth is the success of the Republican-Southern Democrat coalition, which has pounded the Administration's legislative program into an unrecognizable blob...
...finds that the bullet has shattered a vertebra. No operation is possible. His skill, which has saved so many lives that mean little to him, can do nothing for Joan, who means much to him. Joan dies the day the Germans invade Poland, and the world, like a blob of soggy ice cream oozing off a spoon, slides into World...
...British are definitely predominant in downtown Athens. They look well, and behave even better. Athens is clean, bright, and almost gay, compared with Italian cities and Belgrade. Sidewalk cafes are crowded with Englishmen and Greeks willing and able to pay 35? for a tiny blob of ice cream and 20? for a thimbleful of coffee...
Russian-born Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944), whose designs are both whirling and geometrical, hated the thought of painting "dogs, vases, naked women." To him "a circle is a living wonder" and a blob of color is enough to convey a mood (blue, "the typical heavenly color," stands for rest; blue-black for grief; violet, the echo of grief; green is "the bourgeoisie -self-satisfied, immovable, narrow...