Word: blunting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Occasionally a movie is filmed with racier dialogue in the foreign version than in the American. In the original "Mr. Robert," a character just leers about his flirtations, but in the European filming he mumbles a few blunt lines. Usually it is the other way around. India was upset with "Demetrius and the Gladiators," particularly with the scene with a semi-clad gladiator in the background. All the Asian countries are rigidly strict, removing any embrace that lingers more than a second or two ("depending on the quality...
When Khrushchev smiles, the light flashes on two gold bicuspids. He is short (5 ft. 3 in.), like all of Stalin's men, but bulky, and he has a blunt, peasant face. Among Russians he has a crude way of addressing all those below him in rank with the unceremonious and familiar "thou." Said a Russian who knew him during his days in the Moscow Soviet: "He exudes self-confidence and aplomb. He knows very well how to annoy people with explanations of their party tasks." Was he talking with Malenkov now about his failed party tasks...
...Blunt as Chou was, his renewed vow to "liberate" Formosa omitted one essential: when. The Communists were careful to leave themselves time. Peking is patient, Chou En-lai explained when Burma's Premier U Nu visited Peking last December, and expects to win Formosa not by force of arms but by subversion and defection...
...clearing the deadwood from French industry and agriculture. Largely, Mendes-France's fall was due to the personal hatreds and the petty politics of some members of the National Assembly. Mendes-France's defeat was also undoubtedly due tin part of his singular method of waging politics. Although his blunt manner won the support of large parts of the population at large, his sharp blunt manner won the support of large parts to steamroller tactics won him many unnecessary enemies in the Assembly...
Monstrous Notion. The blunt fact emerging from this biography is that not even the greatest artist has the right to tell a mother of five that she is not "creative." Although Gauguin has left posterity a host of fine paintings, he has also left it hugging the monstrous notion that (in Shaw's words) "the true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living ... if only the sacrifice of them enable him to ... paint a finer picture...