Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ulcers, headaches and fatigue, Walter Robertson sought to resign as long ago as January 1957. Secretary of State Dulles, an old friend, put his arm around Robertson's shoulder and said: "You just can't leave. I want you for policy matters, and you can leave the detail stuff to other people." Last July Robertson wrote out a formal letter of resignation to President Eisenhower, was turned down again. Reason: the Quemoy crisis was brewing, and Robertson's resignation might be read by Red China to mean a softening of the U.S. position. Last week, when ailing...
...such extensive ramifications that it spills over into several TIME departments. Project Argus, in which man for the first time spun a web of electrons around the whole world, was such a story and demonstrated that TIME'S editorial technique can as easily dissect an unwieldy mass of detail into manageable pieces as it can assemble scattered facts into a terse whole...
Between these points, her life has its tough spots--as has the film--but it is a relentless series of misfortunes. Director Rene Clement and his star, Maria Schell, have played this exhausting saga for every sob, every simper and every sordid detail. They have come with up an absorbing, at times sickening, film, but one which never reaches its goal of tragedy and which is more depressing than it is genuinely moving...
...horror with brutal directness. Such scenes as the washing-house fight between Gervaise and her rival (where Miss Schell tears an earring out through Miss Delair's bleeding earlobe) and the bedroom where M. Perier has vomited the results of an all-day drinking spree--photographed in careful detail--are moments the viewer would like to, but cannot, forget...
With hamhanded touches of horror like these, M. Clement destroys the tragedy and poignancy of his situation. Gervaise is a fine, very nearly moving, motion picture; if you can stomach (and forget) the sordid detail, it is a worthwhile experience...