Word: drumhead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Blue Dahlia. Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake in Raymond Chandler's melodrama, tight as a drumhead (TIME...
...Blue Dahlia. Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake in Raymond Chandler's melodrama, tight as a drumhead (TIME...
...could see the Germans' thinning reserves, stretched drumhead-tight west of the Rhine. The Germans had just about all their chips on the table. But the Allies still had cash in their pockets; their impressive reserves had not yet been committed. North of Bradley, Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery had thrown in only part of his armies. To the south, Lieut. General Jacob Devers, who had reserves, too, had slashed into the Germans' soft left flank in the Vosges (see below). In his own area, Omar Bradley's Twelfth Army Group pounded grimly and powerfully...
...screen with werewolves or explain away all supernatural antics as the deliberate hocus-pocus of a mad scientist, estate-grabber or Axis agent. The Uninvited blends the everyday with the inexplicable, gets a lot of its best scares out of the everyday. The skittering of a squirrel across the drumhead floors of the vacant house suddenly gives vacancy a cold portentousness. The scraping of a wine glass against a table, during the seance, is more scary than the seance itself. The unexpected smashing of a window while you are watching a rather good Paramount ghost rasps the nerves like...
...conscience may be troubled. For, next to Freedom, the concept which Americans hold most dear is Justice. And to U.S. legalists the swift action of East European trials smacked unpleasantly of the drumhead. Will the war be won if Justice is lost? Yet what shall the U.S. reply if, attempting to impose its code of elaborate safeguards and tortuous delays, its injured allies turn on it and cry: "Did they burn your homes? Did they murder your wives and children...