Word: eye
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...merely let the decree go through. Nevertheless Red labor leaders summoned workers to the city hall to demonstrate against the fare increase. Two days later, the new council was having its first plenary session at the City Hall. Glowering, stocky Jean Cristofol, the ousted Red mayor, fixed a baleful eye on Carlini, his Gaullist successor, and interrupted the preliminary business to demand an immediate discussion of the streetcar-fare boost. Carlini refused. Instantly the 24 "Cocos" began shouting abuse; one of them threw a chair at the mayor. A woman Socialist thereupon spattered Communist Cristofol's shirtfront with...
...each man must learn every offensive and defensive stop to perfection. Movements must be repeated over and over again, so that reposes are mechanical rather than studied. The man ho must stop and think what to do today finds himself watching the other team score from a worm's eye view...
...could follow all harbor doings for a mile around. A squarish blob meant a ferryboat; a small oval, a tug. Moored ships showed their anchor chains. Snaking her heavy barges through all these obstacles, the Transfer 21 made Jersey without trouble, though only the radar's electronic eye had seen the water...
Beware of Pity (J. Arthur Rank) is a cinemadaptation of Stefan Zweig's novel, one of those puddle-depth stories that, draining themselves with a sort of literary eye dropper, pretend to contain oceans of ideas. The tedious technique might seem justified if it conveyed vivid people, or even lively situations. Beware of Pity conveys only one droplet of an idea (there are two kinds of pity: good & bad) diluted in gallons of plot...
...Cedric Hardwicke does handsomely by the doctor. Lilli Palmer, as the unhappy lady, is a past mistress of the moist eye and the tragic gesture...