Word: expression
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...General Uriburu, was let out of jail, promptly resumed his political activities. Back from exile arrived the publisher of La Critica, the suppressed anti-Uriburu newspaper, and it resumed publication. Critica published: 1) That torture was applied to political prisoners by the Uriburu Government systematically at the express direction of Daniel Uriburu (nephew). 2) That the first public meeting last week of 10,000 of Dr. Irigoyen's adherents was dampened by rain, then dispersed by firemen who threatened to souse the already damp Irigoyenists. 3) That Critica was privileged to reprint an "Invitation to witness the burning...
...irrepressibly nonchalant, his brother is curt, surly, emphatic. At 53 (three years older than John), Lionel usually plays the roles of elderly but vigorous personages. He exercises his prerogative of giving most of them the same mannerisms and is at his best when chuckling, gnashing, and gesticulating to express intoxication...
...SELL space to the automobile and radio and coal and department store people. . . . "[However] we will agree to publish Mr. Hoover's views on hoarding as free advertisements IF Col. Knox will agree to give us an equal amount of advertising space in his paper ... in which to express our views on prohibition and Mr. Hoover. That's fair, isn't it, Colonel?" If Col. Knox thought the offer fair...
Against this background of decorative chaos, Shanghai Express is refreshingly vital. The story is simple and somewhat absurd. It is the tale of a cosmopolitan group thrown together on the long run from Peiping to Shanghai and of their evolution as individuals under the stress and strain of revolutionary China. To know the plot is not necessary for the appreciation of the picture, as the dramatic importance lies entirely in the development of the characters...
...direction of Von Sternberg is as usual obvious because of its elusiveness. His China is unbelievably like the China we had always hoped to see; and once we have watched the Express crawl between the overhanging rafters of an ancient city, chasing foolish chickens before, it is difficult to accept a more prosaic film. To have seen Shanghai Lily looking like a caged imperial tiger as her black gown swirls about her is to have seen a figure that spoils one for lesser women...