Word: cores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this, and for all the eccentricities of Washington state politics, Seattle was a conservative city. It was crazy for education, community clubs, home cooking, Sunday automobile trips to Snoqualmie Falls, and solid construction in municipal buildings. The core of its population was composed of thrifty, churchgoing Scandinavians who enjoyed the rain and yearned to own their own homes. It was a city which liked rose bushes. Dave Beck mirrored its conflicting personality. But for years, Seattle was indignant at its own reflection...
...disappointing film because its core, the ballet, is not good. The fault lies in the filming, editing, and staging, not in the dancing. The camera is not expected to film a ballet entirely from fifth-row-center but neither should it show the movements of the dance as if they were viewed from an aerial kaleidoscope. The whole effect (except for the final bit at the church) is only that--effect. One gets the idea of Miss Shearer leaping through seas of rippling cellophane and grotesque faces, but there are hardly 20 continuous minutes of sustained dancing. Miss Shearer...
...cyclone called Tallulah, full of sound & fury, pulls wildly at everything around it, but it has a vacuum core of insecurity and loneliness. Behind its protective bluster and bombast, Tallulah's loneliness makes curious demands. She cannot sleep without a radio blaring near by; turn it off and she wakes up. When a power failure stilled her radio in the country, she insisted on keeping a guest up all night, talking, until the electricity came on again. She hates to be alone; she almost never...
...team composed mostly of overconfident sophomores and set it on end to the tune of 20-7. Captain Torbie MacDonald, one of the finest running backs seen in the Stadium in a decade, played a fine game; but the rest of the squad which went on to form the core of Harlow's great 1940 and 1941 outfits--couldn't stand up under the determination of the Elis...
Professor Wild asserted that some of eastern Europe's "magnificent" efforts to rebuild are a direct result of the infiltration of communism, "an idealogy which is now regarded as dangerous by the press." But he stated that it is an ideology "which must have something sound at his core...