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...McCurdy is not one to dwell long on the darker side of things. "By the end of the season I think we may be stronger than last year's team," he continued.... "Everybody's working a little harder now.... We can't help but look on this as kind of a challenge." He smiled and left...
...quality and the unfortunate compression required by a maximum viewing time limit the film. A novel, for example, can take forty hours to be read, and can indulge in the luxury of leisurely expression, whereas the film is at the mercy of the speeding celluloid that cannot turn back, dwell or diverge. The novel can give pages to the description of minutes and skip over years in a sentence; but while a film can dismiss time, it cannot expand it or hold it back to examine it in many facets. "A novel has three tenses, a film has only...
...FOREIGN NEWS). The U.S. fear was not so much that Russia would risk all-out war by Middle Eastern aggression, as such, but rather that it would dangerously spread its influence in the Arab world by appearing as the noisy champion of Arab Syria. The Eisenhower-Macmillan talks would dwell less on the intramural problems of the Middle East than on methods of keeping the Russian influence...
...fruitfull countrey, inhabited with pasturing people, which dwell in the Summer season upon mountains, and in Winter they remoove into the valleyes . . . in carravans . . . of people and cattell, carrying all their wives, children and baggage...
...disjointed welter of plots occasionally departs from animal husbandry to dwell upon balmy Santa Marta's social and racial ferments. It seems that the happy islanders, almost all of some Negro ancestry, sometimes get irritated by the snootiness of the British colonial plantation owners. Their self-seeking messiah (played like a talking totem pole by Singer Harry Belafonte) is trying to improve their lot by shaking hands with all of them, sullenly muttering into his champagne at white folks' garden parties, making louder speeches over coconut milk about his dedication to equality and self-government. Belafonte...