Word: caste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...does. Jennifer Jones proves that she's got the versatility deserving of an Academy Award, and Robert Walker is pleasant when he's not trying to be cute. Albert Basserman rounds out a first-rate cast in a first-rate piece of cinema, simply conceived, beautifully executed...
When a hand is "bitten" (usually by an accidental blow against teeth, rarely by actual biting), treatment is to cut the wound wide open, remove all tissue injured by the poisonous teeth, bandage with splints or a cast so the hand cannot move. To impress laymen and doctors with the necessity for quick treatment, Dr. Hudson gave some facts: 1) of 14 hand bites treated at Massachusetts General Hospital, five of the seven treated late lost fingers or parts of them; 2) of 14 cases seen by Dr. Hudson himself, none of the eight treated early had amputations, three...
Much of this subtly simple story is told through leisured close-ups of faces so well cast, in the Moscow Art Theater tradition, that they embody nations, passions, methods, doubts, like great restrained cartoons. These faces discuss the situation, and advance the story, with considerable dramatic intelligence. Napoleon's occupation of Moscow, and his catastrophic retreat, are child's play compared with their handling in Tolstoy's great novel War and Peace. But the retreat does have a certain grandeur, resembling that of the florid, romantic, 19th-Century military art from which its cinematic style is apparently...
Then Russia took a hand. In Tiflis (Stalin's old home town), a Free Yugo slavia radio station was set up. From it the news about Tito's Partisans was broad cast to the world. But Tiflis was three weeks by courier from Yugoslavia. News from Tito was always late...
Ethel Merman, bouncy, bugle-voiced musicomedienne, cast in the title role of Sadie Thompson, a musical version of Broadway's 1922 smash hit Rain, left the show three weeks before its Philadelphia opening because she did not like the lyrics, was replaced by bright and brassy Musicomedienne June Havoc...