Word: downpours
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...superb cast is colored with this fatal splendor, as the drama is played out among a group of characters whose violent passions spend themselves like a quick tropical downpour. Their story surges and eddies through a picture that matches the passion and profusion of Conrad's prose...
Coach Stuffy McInnis' Crimson nine will play Amherst at 2:30 p.m. tomorrow, provided that groundskeepers can get Pratt Field's playing surface in shape after the all-day downpour...
...oldtime songs as You Were Meant for Me, You Are My Lucky Star, and the picture's title tune,* most of them by Producer-Lyricist Freed and Composer Nacio Herb Brown. There is a delightful sequence in which Kelly dances down a puddle-filled street in a Technicolor downpour, and there are several gay take-offs on supercolossal Busby Berkeley girlie routines. But the show's biggest song & dance number is far from the best: a flossy 15-minute ballet about the Roaring Twenties that makes up in size what it lacks in sparkle...
...bankroll. Should he invest it in Whitmore's gas station? Or should he buy a boat and go junketing about the West Coast with Jean Hagen? The film never recovers from this odd digression, and Meeker's eventual cure is accomplished with Hollywood mirrors: in a tropical downpour, he saves his nephew's life, clears up his war neurosis in a brisk man-to-man chat with Whitmore, and, arm-in-arm with Jean, walks happily into the rainswept night...
...Arab refugees from Palestine and their opposite numbers, 200,000 Jewish immigrants, admitted to Israel but not yet absorbed. They huddle in tents and makeshift shelters, queue for meager rations. Last week Nature added to their misery, in a howling of winds and a downpour of rain such as the Middle East hadn't seen for a quarter-century...