Word: buildups
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...remains to be seen. It is a skillfully calculated improvisation for live actors on a rigid stage, and has an almost cabaret dependence on flesh-&-blood intimacy with the audience. Wisely, in this case, the screen imitates the stage rather closely. The whole rhythm of entrance & exit, bit and buildup is strictly theatrical, and the camera scarcely ever leaves the redolent barroom...
Speakers in favor of Eisenhower maintained that he was the only liberal minded man in the Democratic party strong enough to break the tradition of manifesting an incumbent President. According to the opposition, Douglas, as the only strong liberal in the presidential field, must be given all the publicity buildup possible...
...train's backers might well have assumed that their project would be as free of criticism as the Barnum & Bailey Circus. But no; the attacks had already begun. Michigan's Congressman Clare E. Hoffman, a hard-shelled, far-right Republican, at once denounced it as a Democratic "buildup for 1948." Illinois' 81-year-old Adolph Sabath, a Democrat, complained because no copy of the Wagner Labor Act was included in the exhibits. In Henry Wallace's New Republic, Langston Hughes, Red-winged Negro poet, heaved a shrewdly aimed rock...
...already is intent upon seeing the picture, for no particular reason other than having heard its name so many times. And a good many of them are liable to be very disappointed with what they see; not only because it will come as such a letdown after the huge buildup, but because intrinsically "Duel in the Sun" is no great shakes by any standard. And despite his propaganda and his jacked-up prices, Mr. Selznick seems headed for financial disappointment...
Evelyn stayed at the Blue Angel for her customary three years, began building a radio name with appearances on the Lanny Ross Show, the Chesterfield Supper Club, the Bourjois Powder Box Theater, et al. Last week, the buildup paying off big, she mused: "I sometimes wonder why I studied singing. I became such a huge success when I stopped using my voice...