Word: expression
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Shanghai Express fully justifies its title. For one thing, the action mostly takes place aboard a train of the same name running between Peiping and Shanghai. But more important, it is a film full of violence, some intrigue, snappy dialogue, and Marlene Dietrich. The last asset is generally enough to make any film worthwhile. This particular one, made when techniques were beginning to reach their present excellence, and way before Miss Dietrich became the least touch faded, shows her a really lovely woman. Every once in a while director Joseph von Sternberg took lengthy close...
...slack with much interesting chatter. There is a nice old lady who may, or may not, be a madame, depending on the viewer's state of mind, a disgraced French officer, an American gambler, a missionary, and an unpleasant German opium dealer. All these help make Shanghai Express a picture that, although it begins slowly, chugs its way into a lot of excitement and interest...
...Persia's Zoroaster, Sparta's Lycurgus, Athens' Solon, China's Confucius, Byzantium's Justinian, Wessex' Alfred and France's Louis IX. An odd list, but it is easy to see what those who drew it up had in mind. They wanted to express the universality of the idea of law. Lycurgus and Confucius, Zoroaster and Alfred stand for very disparate systems of conduct-and the Appellate Division was not necessarily buying any of them. All it wanted to say in marble was that all the systems partake of the notion that...
...Madam, I should like to express the deep and lively sense of gratitude which we and all your peoples feel to you and to His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh for all the help and inspiration we receive in our daily lives and which spreads with ever-growing strength throughout the British realm and the Commonwealth and Empire...
...years, has just opened an eight-mile rapid-transit rail line from the Union Terminal to East Cleveland, expects to bring in passengers by cutting 16 minutes off an old 34-minute bus ride. After Cleveland replaced streetcars on one route with a premium-fare (25? ). guaranteed-seat, super-express bus service, riders tripled. Cleveland Transit System General Manager Donald Hyde, who is also president of the American Transit Association, believes speed is transit's answer not only to the decline in passenger traffic but to rising costs. Says he: "If we can increase average speed one m.p.h...