Word: curiouser
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Free for 30 days on a $20,000 bond, while his attorneys filed motions for a new trial, Soviet Agent Eisler had a curious comment on justice. Said he: "It was a fair trial on a very unfair indictment...
Black Narcissus (Rank, Universal-International) is the curious story of some Anglican nuns who, in the interests of healing and teaching the Himalayan natives, are sent to establish a new convent in an abandoned mountain harem...
Cried the U.S.'s Herschel Johnson: "So . . . the innocent little Slavic-Albanian brothers . . . are menaced by this wicked fascist Greek wolf. It is curious and almost like a fairy tale come to life." The councilors went through their paces like actors in a tediously familiar tragedy of manners. They voted down Gromyko, paragraph by paragraph, with only the pale hand of Poland's Oscar Lange raised with Gromyko's. Later Colombia suggested a compromise which called for the creation of a new, slightly modified Balkan Commission. Gromyko said the Colombia proposal was simply the old U.S. resolution with a "wash...
...extravagantly energetic melodrama about a bewildered killer (Henry Fonda) and the cause and consequence of his deed. The killer is trapped in his little room, high in a poor man's hotel. He refuses to surrender. All night, while law & order works its way toward him and the curious public mills in the street below, he recalls in flashbacks the events leading up to the crime...
...less noise. At 3:30 p.m., Hitler and Eva Braun committed suicide, he by shooting, she with poison; their bodies were carried outside to the garden and burned. It was a horse-opera Liebestod, enacted to the crash of Russian shells and robbed of its Wagnerian grandeur by a curious anticlimax: those remaining in the bunker lit up cigarets. "During Hitler's lifetime that had been absolutely forbidden; but now the headmaster had gone and the boys could break the rules...