Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...winner of a whole flock of minor awards and a leading Oscar candidate, The Bridge on the River Kwai has acquired an undeserved reputation for "significance." The only way it could "mean" anything very important would be as a comment on various attitudes toward war or toward fine points of law and principle. But since the spokesman for one attitude is unspeakably stupid if not downright insane, the "issue" which the film discusses is no issue at all. We are expected to feel a grudging admiration for this Colonel Nicholson as he suffers, and makes his men suffer...
...able to feed himself with a special knife-and-fork combination that enabled him both to cut and pick up meat with his left hand. He was using that hand to print simple messages-his name and address, the word "mother" ("stepfather" was too much for him) and a comment on the hospital: "Here it is nice." His spoken vocabulary was limited to "Yes," "No," "Hi Mom" and "Thanks," but the speech therapist was confident that it would soon grow...
...Norstad. the man who now holds his old job as SACEUR (Supreme Allied Commander Europe). After a quick look at the office that he left in 1952 to campaign for the presidency, Ike dropped into the officers' mess, sipped at a martini proffered by Norstad with the rueful comment: "It's been many a year since...
Whatever her merits as a screen personality, Maria Schell is not universally liked by her fellow workers. Even in a business where professional jealousy is a strictly observed rule, she has inspired a surprising amount of viciously unflattering comment. A well-known French actor last week gritted: "I have never in my life hated a woman so much." A German director said: "I never think of that kleine Biest without wanting to slap her face." To the cast and crew of Une Vie, the French picture she has just finished shooting, she was openly known as "The Monster." A French...
...Force comment on the launching, first successful one for the Atlas, said success came "on a limited range." "The missile flew its prescribed course and landed in the pre-selected impact area, officials stated...