Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like the woman herself, Tallulah's theatrical style is a little more brightly colored than life, in the grand manner that makes modern naturalism seem flat and bloodless. "The boldness of her ease upon the stage," Critic John Mason Brown once wrote, "is on occasion as uncomfortable to watch as it is to see a guest making himself too much at home in another person's house...
...King George County, Virginia, flat, poor and sparsely settled, whites outnumber Negroes 2 to 1. As Virginia's constitution requires, education is "separate"; despite the U.S. Constitution, it is also unequal. King George High School (for whites only) is a modern, red brick building with central heating and inside toilets. King George Training School (for Negroes) is a frame building with stoves and outhouses. The white school taught chemistry, physics, biology, geometry and intermediate algebra; the Negro school had none of these subjects...
Disquieting Miracles. The writing about Christ is reverent, but matter-of-fact. And the style is so flat that Dr. Douglas can speak of biblical characters being "in the driver's seat." Dr. Douglas tells a good story, but he has none of the magic-lantern slide color of a Feuchtwanger or the ingenious imagination of a Robert Graves. The miracles he describes sparingly, without dramatizing and without comment; they are made to seem unsettling and disturbing events. It is not the joy of His love that the book stresses, but the disquiet and the puzzlement that word...
Camels & Crutches. The flat valley land on both sides of the road into Taiyuan was a forest of pillboxes of every shape and size imaginable to military ingenuity. While soldiers piled bricks to build more pillboxes, brown-skinned Shansi farmers worked unperturbed in patches of cabbage, surprisingly still green. Nestled close to the road itself was a rabbit warren of trenches. The road was clogged with a procession of laden camels, donkey carts, peasants carrying baskets on shoulder poles and others pushing crude barrows...
...hard-bitten young army officer who travels west under sealed orders to trace a pair of murders. He can never quite put his finger on the killers, so he shoots a dozen extras just to make sure. Sandwiched in between the first and the last shot are a vicious flat fight, a barn-burning, and the seduction of a bosomy young woman at the almost incredible range of thirty feet. There is also some business about stolen army uniforms and gold thieves which escaped this reviewer...