Word: dialog
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...packed with lawyers, nothing is more fun than a brisk game of splitting verbal hairs. One of the first to take up Senator Borah's challenge was Arizona's bland Senator Ashurst, who attempted to obliterate the Borah argument by a reductio ad absurdum which resulted in dialog that sounded like the Mad Hatter's tea party...
Conversation at Midnight brings together a priest, an artist, a writer of advertising copy, a Communist poet, a rich broker, a Liberal dilettant and a slick magazine writer for after-dinner dialog in verse. Poet Millay, who once acted at Vassar and Provincetown, asks her readers to think of her Conversation in terms of the theatre, but she appends an index of first lines so that segments may be read as single poems. Readers will immediately observe 1) that the most feminine living poet has attempted not one but several distinct masculine idioms, with considerable charm but only here...
Paralleling The Lost Patrol (1934), the simple narrative of The Thirteen supplies its own suspense. Director Mikhail Romm keeps the dialog terse and direct, lets a rifle crack, a sand track, a warwhoop augment the action. Superb photographic sequences: the parleys with the bandit chief, one parched private running amok, the shots of shifting, sliding sand...
...Olivier (The Green Bay Tree) took the name part opposite Vivien Leigh's Ophelia. Cadets of the Danish Military Academy acted as soldiers and courtiers. A gale the previous day had left a high sea running and the muffled thunder of waves played a direful counterpoint to the dialog...
...understood to favor Alben William Barkley of Kentucky, now assistant leader, who sees eye to eye with the New Deal. Senators were much more inclined to favor James Francis Byrnes of South Carolina, who is more popular although he has differed with the New Deal on occasion. And this dialog was widely quoted...