Word: bloomed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Vice Squad (Levy and Gardner; United Artists) introduces the stream-of-consciousness technique at the precinct level. What James Joyce did in Ulysses for Leopold Bloom, this picture does for a detective captain. And though a day in the life of a flatfoot does not exactly provide many Joycean transfigurations-especially when the flatfoot is Edward G. Robinson -the film does leave the audience feeling like a thoroughly chewed cigar...
...future, Wright thought, New York will become even more of a village. "You'll see more greenery in 25 years. Grass will grow where least expected, and flowers will bloom in the concrete. Big cities are a hangover from feudal times. Once they were necessary, but they reached and passed their peak, and now you will see them disappearing...
Like the blossoming flowers of May, Harvard's annual crop of water pistols has sprouted. Thousands of guns more colorful than a flower show in full bloom suddenly appeared since spring vacation. Sales are booming. Local stores call Harvard the "Arsenal of the East," and proudly claim part in its newest sport...
...White House, the magnolias were in full bloom and a fountain, surrounded by orange tulips, splashed beguilingly. Gardeners gave the lawn its first spring trim, and the smell of new-mown grass wafted through the open windows of Dwight Eisenhower's office. The President, like most Americans, responded to the beck of spring, tried to fit a little fun into the pressing routine of work. Last week...
...somewhat wilted plot manages to take on an unaccustomed bloom in Fritz Lang's direction and the acting of an adept cast. Director Lang tells his story mostly with the camera, and gives the picture a brisk pace that helps conceal its slack spots. Anne Baxter makes a thoroughly attractive murder suspect, and Richard Conte as the newsman is such a demon columnist that he apparently never even has to bother to write a column...