Word: brutalizes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Herbert Marshall's Bond Street voice and general air of bemused gentility make a perfect foil for George Sanders' playing of the brutal genius. One of the few cinemactors with any real presence, Sanders has for years been using it to put starch into supporting parts and B pictures. The Moon & Sixpence gives him his first big chance. It also puts his fine performance in a vacuum...
...eyes with unwavering, pinpoint pupils, his clipped mustache and his clipped, machine-gun orders; they regard him as a somewhat dashing but thoroughly competent commander. His chief aide in the field as the battle joined was Lieut. General Bernard Law Montgomery, 54-year-old Ulsterman, who is merciless, almost brutal. In the two of them Rommel might indeed have met his equals...
...Seventh Symphony's proportions are heroic, most obviously so in the 27-minute first movement. The deceptively simple opening melody, suggestive of peace, work, hope, is interrupted by the theme of war, "senseless, implacable and brutal." For this martial theme Shostakovich resorts to a musical trick: the violins, tapping the backs of their bows, introduce a tune that might have come from a puppet show. This tiny drumming, at first almost inaudible, mounts and swells, is repeated twelve times in a continuous twelve-minute crescendo. The theme is not developed but simply grows in volume like Ravel...
...Union was the one building that could solve both problems. The changes were most brutal. Yearly membership ceased; only Life Members retaining their eating privileges. The Freshmen, with their smokers and vaudevilles displaced all else, only to be displaced by the Navy...
...bewildering. Was not Mexico at war with Germany? And had not Germany been charged with the brutal sinking of the Athenia, back in 1939's fateful September? And had not Owner Axel Wenner-Gren providentially happened along in the Southern Cross and picked up 399 of the Athenia's survivors...