Word: exploit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...effort to exploit Dartmouth's weak stickwork, Crimson coach Dolph Samborski will start his number one pitcher, Bob Ward. Mueller will probably counter with lefty Rufus Tilden...
...strategists assumed that the Red Army could roll almost unopposed to the Atlantic if they decided to take the great chance on World War III. But it might be more prudent to capture Western Europe through the ballot box. Accordingly, Western European Communist Parties concentrated on political drives to exploit economic misery and insecurity. Their success was checked by the Marshall Plan, but they still knew that in event of war Western Europe offered no military obstacle to the Red Army. Last fall the Kremlin realized that the U.S. military aid program might change that fact...
Funny as it is, the movie would be funnier if the scripters had not overworked their incidental gags at the expense of the best one: Kaye never really gets a chance to exploit the comic notion of the tramp who feels his oats as a big shot. The trouble may be that the picture tries too hard to keep Kaye sympathetic...
Prince of Foxes (20th Century-Fox] is probably Hollywood's most ambitious attempt to exploit actual locations. To recreate the look of Renaissance Italy, veteran Director Henry King & company spent six months and $4,500,000 (about half of it in the studio's frozen Italian lire). They fanned out to 14 Italian cities and towns and to the tiny mountain republic of San Marino, which 20th Century-Fox rented, complete with population, at $40 a day. No expense or trouble was spared; to help create a 15th Century view of the domes and canals of Venice...
...just that Playwright Kanin sets theater above drama, but that he displays an almost equal lack of respect for his sordid material and his own talent. The one concern with squalor is to make it picturesque at all costs; with vulgarity, to exploit it for laughs. In the end The Rat Race gets nowhere; worse, it gets dull, repeating a lot of facile tricks and typifying a theater where, more & more, clever playwrights write everything but plays...