Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...honest, son. The human interest aspects of this set-up sweep Stewart off his feet and he splashes the Hard-earned Heartaches across Chicago, little believing the son (Conte) is really innocent. Persuaded to dig deeper and talk with the prisoner, Stewart gradually turns from a skeptical, feature-conscious reporter into a citizen grieved by a civic unjustice and turns lower-case handsprings to right the wrong. After pacing the Polish quarter and fondling a Police Dept. switchboard, he finally finds the crucial clue in a tray of developer, and the man is freed...
Wurdeman & Becket think other architects could get around antiquated building codes to cut costs. Wurdeman thinks that "they just haven't presented their cases right." The partners, who netted $125,000 apiece last year, are still penny-conscious. Says Wurdeman: "I just wouldn't know how to act if a guy would say 'I don't give a damn how much it costs...
Ehrgott, the eighth of his family who has served in Custer's old cavalry regiment, the ambush-conscious U.S. 7th, pointed out through his interpreter that darkness was excellent cover, and that if you deployed properly ambushes did not happen...
...bright-eyed outlooks. "The Upturned Glass" is overflowing with this Look, both in the person of Mason and in its somber story, lowkey lighting and pessimistic characters. Yet aside form its dampening emotional effect, it ties all these ingredients together nicely and if you're not too fashion-conscious, the New Look will do as well...
...precise proportion of doctors, lawyers, Republicans, Democrats, loiterers, etc., as does the entire nation; he goes there, on the theory that an analysis of the town's opinion will reveal the exact opinion of the whole country; he goes anonymously, realizing that the town must not become self-conscious about its representative nature; his secret leaks out; the town becomes a tremendous sensation throughout the nation; it has a boom; in the process, it loses its head and its representative quality; this last is discovered; the town has a bust; Stewart pulls out a gimmick providing for a return...