Word: brutes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Paul Douglas picture is a good form of entertainment for a hot summer's night. The even distribution of good gags is never calculated to panic anybody, yet the subtle humor of his gruffness imprints many of the punch lines in your memory. "Love That Brute" provides Douglas with the necessary background--manageable if dull--and gives him the assistance of a skilled supporting comedian, Keenan Wynn. Between the two of them, there are enough laughs to qualify the picture as entertainment but nowhere near enough to give it a name for good comedy...
...Nancibel ... Oh, you filthy brute...
Strachey's own defense concluded with a peculiar quotation from an article by him last month in the London Tribune. He had written: "All the nightmare aspects of the Soviet regime really stem from the gigantic error of having maintained, by brute force, far too highly developed an economy among a population the relative maturity of which was totally inadequate to sustain...
...rough, hulking brute of a man is married to a woman who believes it her duty to keep him happy and prosperous. He is impetuous, likes to do things for himself, and whenever she gets in his way, he knocks hell out of her. After three scenes of abuse she frees herself from him. "I'm an old beat-up woman," she says. "Physically I can never love anyone else." But mentally she is free...
...adding machine, compared to one of Bessie's breed, is a dumb, limited brute. It accepts numbers through its keyboard and "remembers" them by the setting of its mechanism. When the operator gives a command by pressing another key, the machine adds or subtracts the numbers in its "memory." Then it stops, waiting for another command...