Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last time we went to the U.T., Hitchcock and Harry and we had considerable trouble. If, this time, The Harder They Fall must fall, and fall it must, one can explain the phenomenon by saying there isn't too much to say that it doesn't say better itself. No viscous chestnut, The Harder They Fall pulls no punches in exposing the fight racket. Bogie gleefully battles out the old question of free will versus determinism in this thriller with metaphysical aspirations. The death of a boxer is seen as a boxer would see it. Any Bogie film is good...
...Money. Truckloads of Red army troops and squad cars crowded with Volkspolizei stood by. Mobile generators were humming to provide lights for the occasion, and at the entrance to a hole dug in the ground, a colonel of the Russian signal corps was on hand to explain it all. Ten feet below, its entrance a hole cut in the roof by the Russians, lay the tunnel itself: a cast-iron tube about six feet in diameter and 500-600 yards long, crammed with electronic equipment, cables, tape recorders, ventilating apparatus and pumps of both British and American make...
...year stretch) and David Greenglass (15 years) provided some intriguing marginal notes to the history of U.S. treason. Admitting that the Russians had done "a superb psychological job" on him, onetime Philadelphia Chemist Gold, 45, drew snickers in the Washington hearing room when he debunked the "trash" written to explain why he turned traitor. Said he of one theory: "I haven't been uniformly successful in love, but I didn't get into espionage for that reason." Nor was it because of an inferiority complex or a desire for acclaim that he devoted eleven years to passing atomic...
...narrative. The technical ease of "how to catch a shark" seems to suit the author and the protagonist, which the stream of consciousness soliloquy at the beginning certainly does not. If Davidson can find a tale which talks through its own logic instead of requiring attempts to explain outside the narrative, he may well become a really successful story-teller. At present, however, his story compels you to read until, arriving at the end, you find that there is nothing there but supper...
...patrons can still hear the lovers' mumble above the military rumble. Air Force brass will watch the experiment closely; if it works, any U.S. drive-in theater bothered by Air Force planes in the future may be able to get a similar film to soothe its customers and explain why the U.S. Air Force makes history at night...