Word: develop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Critic Wilson's purpose is to develop a subtle and ambitious theme of Evil in our times. His observations are not always adequate to his ultrasophisticated posture; hence the posture; sometimes looks a little self-deceived. But such civilized writing and observation are rare in the U.S. nowadays, and on its merits Memoirs of Hecate County is pretty certainly the best contemporary chronicle, so far, of its place and period. Evil is as vivid through the book as a bushful of snakes...
...John Boettiger strode into the newsroom of the Phoenix Republic and Gazette, thrust a handout at a reporter. It said that Anna and he would "gradually" develop the newsless shoppers' weekly into a daily paper. It did not say (or need to) that John and Anna hope to break the Republic and Gazette's profitable monopoly. The Republic called itself the Republican until 1930, still talks like one; the Gazette, under the same ownership, is only a little more polite to Democrats. The New Dealing Boettigers obviously hoped to capitalize on one fact of life in Arizona...
...Million Cash. Last fortnight the Quebec Government gave Hollinger an exclusive 20-year concession to explore and develop 3,900 square miles of Ungava directly across the border from its Labrador concession (see map). Hollinger and a U.S. associate, the iron mining firm of M. A. Hanna, agreed to spend upward of $300 million...
...current production has attempted to emphasize both details. Despite the program's announcement of a "new version" by Judith Guthrie, the present production varies little from the original: it has been slightly condensed and many bit part extras have been added to accent the circus atmosphere rather than to develop the plot. Tyrone Guthrie's imaginative setting--one large room heaped with stage paraphernalia--also increases the effect...
From here on in, things develop into a kind of actors' field day, with alternations of slapstick and high comedy, carefully understated emotion, and plain-&-simple bathos. Before he is through, Director Victor Fleming (Gone With the Wind) manages to lug in almost everything except a flood, a fire, an Indian massacre and a trained collie. But the dialogue somehow holds up under the strain, and there are a few wonderful sequences: Joan Blondell as the life of a rowdy party; Gable on a supercilious tour through a farmhouse; Gable and Garson engaged in a hen hunt. Adaptable Cinemactress...