Word: fines
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...along the Merrimack River, the textile mills hummed and chattered. The cobbled main street was thronged with shopping housewives, suits moved briskly off the rack; at Nick Maloof's restaurant ("where the elite meet the dawn") business was fine. Said Austin O'Toole, owner of the town's biggest market: "These people aren't on pork & beans. You know the first thing we sold out today? Lobster...
...Hoelzle Housing Committee was appointed with a judge as its chairman. Staff members of a local radio station and a local newspaper became self-appointed "expediters." Benefit dances and basketball games were held. The committee's zeal was unbounded; they got a lot in a fine residential section and built a $22,000 house with an elevator shaft, ramps for Bob Hoelzle's wheelchair, and special bathroom fixtures...
...life in the new Met assemblage was a Roman copy of a 5th Century B.C. Greek bronze, The Wounded Amazon. The Met had picked it because it demonstrated some of the esthetic qualities the Greeks had prized most highly: the Amazon was dead calm, despite her wounds, and a fine-tuned example of physical fitness. Unlike the stiff, staring images of earlier cultures, she looked alive and in motion...
Strangers' occasional virtuosity cannot conceal its flaws. As a Cuban Gestapo man, Pedro (The Pearl) Armendariz gives a fine performance. But when he starts making bestial passes at Jennifer Jones while Garfield hides in the cellar, he is only one jump ahead of old-fashioned horse opera. Another kernel of corn: Garfield's big death scene, highlighted by Gilbert Roland's brokenhearted requiem in calypso rhythm and some highfalutin dialogue delivered by Miss Jones. Never for a moment a dull movie, Strangers is often too facile or too far away from strict artistic honesty. Coming from...
Among Marine officers, only Vandegrift is considered, and Pratt describes his handling of the Guadalcanal action with fine clarity. The casualty figures underline the sharpshooter tradition perfectly. Japanese dead: 32,000; U.S.: 2,000. The second World War II choice is Bradley, of whom Pratt says flatly: "The ablest soldier in any service during World...