Word: crude
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bearlike Artamonov Sr. becomes almost lovable during his invasion of the town of Dryomov, with hia masterful bluntness, self-assurance, genuine humility, faith in work; his crude affection for his sons, his bold carnality. Pyotr, the eldest son, is no less stupid than his father except that he knows he is stupid. His endless wondering about the right and wrong of things is what undoes him. Did he kill the clerk's nasty little boy by accident, he asks himself, or in malice, or to save his own son an evil companionship. He cannot decide that and a hundred...
...count these ballots. The result was the Battle of the Cousins which displaced all other Senate business; which turned Senators into a pack of snarling, sleepless animals; which littered the chamber with apple cores, pitchers of ice water and ancient documents. The time-filling tactics of the filibusterers were crude. Instead of reading Shakespeare or Byron, they had the clerk read yesterday's journal. Senator Cameron plodded through a document on copper mining, of which he could not pronounce some of the words. Senator Moses, protectionist, read a four-year-old low tariff speech of Senator Underwood. Senator Blease...
...Author Karl Brown got them to act their primitive lives before his camera. The natives use no makeup, register no artful emotions. Men sleep, hunt, fish, sleep. Women hoe, bear children, scrub dishes, chop wood, cook, clean, bear children. The men live longer. The mere projection of such crude civilization, the knowledge that it still persists among lineal descendants of American settlers is enough to make the film's substance fascinating...
...opinion of Alice Brady, star of "Lady Alone", plays dealing with Lesbianism and Homosexuality or similar distasteful subjects have no place on the American Stage. They treat of matters not only unpleasant in themselves, but made considerably more so by the crude manner in which the playwrights who attempt this type of sensationalism handle them. In addition to which, Miss Brady feels that the topics are in most cases new to the audiences and do anything but stimulate their minds in the proper direction...
...story parallels Wagner's Tristan and Isolde?a king, a vassal sent a-wooing. The first scene disclosed King Eadgar's (Lawrence Tibbett's) banquet hall, its rough-hewn table boards, trophies of woodland kills, crude spears, armor: discloses also the royal widower's conceit to take a second wife. Aelfrida, daughter of the Thane of Devon, famed for beauty, is in his mind. With Saxon stolidity, however, he withholds decision until assured that the lady, whom he has never personally inspected, merits her reputation. On the errand of verification and summons (if justified), he despatches his loyal foster-brother...