Word: flare
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Betweentimes he scripted one of Britain's best wartime films, The Way to the Stars, and wrote three more hit plays-each about as bright and empty as an electric-light bulb. Flare Path (1940) played more than 600 performances...
...Part II all hollow. It is more tightly knit, it moves with greater speed and swell, and it traces the upward curve of most of its characters' destinies. Falstaff, still the boon companion of the errant, frivoling Prince Hal, swaggers and swills in rich midsummer plenty. In a flare of eloquence and arms, the rebellion against Henry IV, led by the heedless, dauntless Hotspur, progresses to the plains of Shrewsbury, where the day is lost...
...role that his mere presence threatens the audience's capacity for belief. Lana Turner is a very highly charged and appealing girl, but too much in this role is far beyond her experience, her understanding, even her sincerely overworked imagination; her only fine, authentic moments, barring one searing flare of jealous hatred, are casually domestic and flirtatious. Much of the Turner-Garfield dialogue, which needs the flickering intensity of adders' tongues, is paced and keyed like an erotic discussion between a couple of cats. Finally, a kind of overall rigor artis of anxiety, sincerity and division of purpose...
Womp: a sudden flare-up of light...
...House of Commons where the Government has only 126 seats against 119 for the combined Opposition, such an event would be extremely hazardous. The Cabinet could allow the intraparty fight to flare on the floor of the House of Commons, and risk defeat. Or it could cancel the tariff increases. Neither alternative was sweet...