Word: doored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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More serious damage results from some horse-opera touches near the end of the film. After Romeo's return to Verona, Castellani indulges in some Hitchcock camera work on the theme, "Will Romeo run into Friar Laurence, thus saving the day?" Laurence, of course, wanders out the back door of the cathedral just as Romeo arrives at the front. There is a good deal more puffing and groaning than necessary, too, while Romeo forces his way into the vault with a broken candlestick which he had to run all the way back to the church...
Some are dragged through the door asking for just a little more time. Mussolini (to his executioner): "But . . . but . . . Mr. Colonel." Pope Alexander VI: "I come. It is right. Wait a moment." When a parson told Ethan Allen (a religious man who took Fort Ticonderoga "in the name of the great Jehovah and the Continental Congress") that the angels were waiting for him, Allen exploded: "Waiting, are they? Waiting, are they? Well, God damn 'em, let 'em wait...
...U.A.W. also thinks that it is a sure winner in another contest this week with U.E. for 600 workers at Harvester's Richmond (Ind.) plant. Said a triumphant U.A.W. organizer: "They'll be coming in so fast we'll have to bar the door...
...Kaiser-Willys announced two new models, with seven inches more in length and $300 to $400 less in price than last year's models: the Bermuda, a two-door hardtop replacing the Eagle, has a factory list price of $1,795; the Custom, replacing the Ace, has a list price...
...short stories, Britain's robust, many-sided man of letters takes a series of ordinary Englishmen right out of this world. In one story, an engineer named Harvey Lindfield-lonely, bored and bewildered by the drab meanness of life in a manufacturing town-gingerly walks through a library door into The Other Place. There he basks in sunshine and fellowship among the townspeople with whom he used to be shy and awkward but who are now transformed into his friends. Then his own lustful impatience leads him to open a girl's door too soon, and he finds...