Word: expressed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mariene Dietrich is an emotional and aesthetic experience. To see her in the fabulous modernism of the new Paramount Theatre adds further color to that experience. Only a picture of the forcefulness of Shanghai Express could tear one away from the exotic pastime of watching full-blown colonial maidens, done in the style of Louis XVI, cavorting in modernistic panels under the influence of subdued lighting effects. Paramount has again attempted to be all things to all men and has again succeeded in its own fashion...
...fact that America is not represented in the meetings and that her interests may therefore be conviently disregarded leads participants to express foreign claims with a sympathy and enthusiasm that might easily prejudice their subsequent attitude toward American rights and demands. Such a lack of appreciation for national sentiment is apparent throughout all the negotiations and accounts in, large measure for the character of the conclusions. This fact, coupled to the mechanical ease with which those decisions are reached, must inevitably give rise to a mistaken conception in the minds of participants as to the true nature of international negotiations...
...conclusion, either for or against. Some of us who mocked the first exhibitions of Cubism in America, notably the Amory Show, have learnt to be as unthinkingly broad-minded today as we were at one time prejudiced and skeptical,--so that it is more rare to hear the public express a reasonable doubt when facing new mystifications, than it is to hear such young ladies who say, "I am sure this must be fine. I don't understand it, but it is so modern." To be catholic is admirable. Let us not be over credulous...
...subconscious world they wished to explore and depict. But the symbolism of Freud, although it professes to general application, does not carry even ordinary conviction to most people, and a literature and art which used these symbols as a literal; imagery by which to express their ideas, threatened to be esoteric. It was upon this snag that the first Surrealistes were hung, and word went about that the movement was finished. The younger painters, however, now find that by intuition a more plausible imagery may be evolved; and new interest was aroused in this doctrine by the exhibition two years...
...effects achieved by his camera man, Lee Garmes, have effect of giving this melodramatic cliché a reality which it could not possibly achieve in a medium less persuasive than the cinema. Because the cars, the engines, the soldiers, the flags and noises of cities through which the Shanghai express passes are thoroughly realistic, the villainies of Mr. Chang and even the curiously elaborate speeches written for Clive Brook seem real also. Miss Dietrich's legs are not so evident as usual and she acts well in the manner of a less stoic Garbo. The wars to which...