Word: damping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Across the damp, dark face of southern Russia, a vast and portentous victory took shape. At a mile an hour, the front rolled towards the Black Sea. Fifty German divisions were in retreat. Hushed, frightened Bucharest babbled of peace...
Miss Harrison, with notable help from mood-wise Cameraman Elwood Bredell, invests this grade-B plot with a lot of style and scare. Some of the dialogue is ham, and toward the end the picture's edginess blunts noticeably. But the bar and bartender, the damp night streets, a late-night elevated platform, and a jam session that looks like an expressionistic death dance, have a good deal of Hitchcock's sinister melo-realistic melancholy...
...went to Berlin. The streets were putrid with uncollected garbage. Unter den Linden was cluttered with war cripples who hobbled along as best they could, made imploring gestures, or "crouched against the cold, damp walls as though ashamed for the stranger to see their distorted leg and arm stumps, their dead eyes, or their faces scarred almost beyond recognition. . . ." The Germans were savage. They spat whenever the name of Matthias Erzberger, who signed the Armistice, was mentioned...
...handiest of all weapons for getting the Jap out of his carefully revetted bunkers or sealing him in forever. The fire is thrown from the Army's improved portable flamethrower, which is superior to anything the Jap is known to have, more easily maintained, simpler, unaffected by tropic damp...
...brief, a "burning pillar of a woman." Grant Sweetland, the ne'er-do-well son of a rich St. Louis family, a drunkard who in his childhood had tortured small ani mals, was "loosely groomed, indifferently tailored," with "a soft, rather overheated look ... a cowlick which dipped damp-looking across his brow," soft, womanish hands and a silhouette which, while not paunchy, "had a curve to it." Middle-Aged Quivers. One day Lily B. met an old schoolmate and he asked her and Oleander to be the hostesses on a stag party to the Kentucky Derby...