Word: contrasted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...picture's attributes is its tendency to abandon the usual Hollywood baby talk for normal adult conversation, achieving striking success in its seemingly minor-key moments. The characters do not insist on mouthing Shakespearian lines at every turn, and when they do, it stands out in obvious and unsatisfactory contrast. Scattered complaints that the film is "mushy" can be upheld by pointing to those less likeable sections where the actors attend to the business of acting, but those condemnations are completely subordinated by the picture's masterful, off-guard body...
...bring home with him the first-hand feel of the fighting-got a very authentic six-days' sample bouncing across the desert with the British troops all the way past Tobruk-dodging Nazi bombs with them and sharing their bully beef and the dusty taste of victory. In contrast, he flew back to Cairo in six hours in a British bomber whose crew fed him chicken and ham pie and fresh fruit...
...Orleans, by contrast with Pasadena, is far happier about the prospect of its Sugar Bowl game on New Year's Day. Georgia Tech is reasonably near New Orleans. Boston College, only other big-time college team still undefeated and untied, is at least not at the opposite end of the continent. Though B.C. has one more game (against Holy Cross), Sugar Bowl promoters have already whispered sweet nothings into the ears of Coach Denny Myers...
...afternoon. The canvases showed Negroes playing harmonicas, shooting craps, teaching Sunday school, and a vigorous study of two bucks locked together in a razor fight (one of Painter Binford's childhood memories). In most of these pictures, somber tones of the sooty bodies and faces stood out in contrast to the brilliant light of a lamp, the yellow interior of a church at night, the flame of a match. All reveal Artist Binford's understanding of Negroes...
Acting honors are pretty evenly divided between Hope and Crosby. Bob has the more sympathetic role--he gets kicked around by just about everybody--but Bing provides the perfect contrast, besides singing as well as ever. Definitely the weak sister of the featured trio, Dorothy Lamour looks adequate if nothing more. Fortunately she isn't asked to engage in the battle of quips that rages around her. A couple of wise-cracking camels are the only real competition for Paramount's daffy duo. They don't mind when Bob actually succeeds in making a monkey out of himself. But when...