Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There is little novel interpretation of character: even that might distract from the great language, or distort it. There is no clear placement in time, no outside world except blind sky, faint landscapes, ruminant surf, a lyrical brook. The camera, prowling and peering about the cavernous castle, creates a kind...
Around Manhattan's Title Guarantee & Trust Co., William Benjamin seemed to be a favored character. As head of a war plant (Metropolitan Machine Shops, Inc., maker of machine parts and auto jacks), he borrowed $99,970 from the bank, without very close questioning. When Benjamin later confessed to frauds...
The criminal, 16-year-old, moronic Aaron Adams, is unimportant to the story. So are his two little-girl victims whom he picked up on their way to school. What really matters, says Jackson, is the effect of the crime, as the tabloids play all its angles across the board...
Ickes' most interesting revelation-how he tried to help Roosevelt fire Secretary of War Harry Woodring-also shed considerable light on the character of his boss.
As Garance Arletty is, first of all, overwhelmingly beautiful. And with a minimum of gesture and the subtlest of facial expression she gives a moving portrayal of the mysterious and unattainable woman who is the spring of every other character's action. The other parts are just as perfectly played...