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...picture can stand up against this kind of preconceived public opinion it is good, and "Johnny Eager," judged by this criterion, is an excellent movie. For the audience really likes it; nor is there any reason under the sun why they shouldn't. Though its ending is a little obvious and its plot at times doesn't stand up under close inspection, the picture is a fast-moving, well-acted, well-written, and excellently directed gangster story. Robert Taylor is a big-shot crook with a heart so hard that he doesn't fall in love with Lana Turner till...
...picture is that of the present age, mellowed by maturity and a conception of deeper tragedy, looking back on a gangling and naive but ever enthusiastic and dauntless period of its development. Roxie had her brief burst of glory in a time when bigness was the sole criterion of success, when the papers were full of nothing but big murders, big investments, big swindles, big fortunes, big failures, and big trials. So a publicity mad public, a press that knew which side its bread was buttered on, and a lawyer to whom law was all Greek but a jury...
...Fogg conference used experiences in wartorn European countries as a criterion in the development of their safety guide. The new work will be used throughout the country in order to safeguard millions of dollars worth of art endangered by either enemy bombs or local sabotage...
...Australia, in the face of Japanese invasion, went for all-out conscription. Canadians took them in their stride. But last week they wondered what next. In Montreal, their No. 1 economic controller announced that Canada's present competitive system must be replaced by one "based entirely on the criterion of maximum production...
These are standards which most of us acknowledge, and to which, in general, we pay a good deal of attention. But there's another criterion which has become taken for granted to such an extent that it gets trampled under foot without our even noticing. And that is that the critic has no business addressing his little barbs or tossing his laurel wreaths toward an audience which functions on a different intellectual or social level than he does...