Word: flesh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Live subjects and animated caricatures do not mix, and it is this fusion of flesh and fantasy which tends to create lopsided sequences, most notably in the last reel. As a result, "Three Caballeros" emerges as a somewhat confused, aimless travelogue on Mexico with Donald Duck or the sadistic penguin sharing the spotlight with Aurora Miranda or a beachful of Mexican bathing beauties...
Howled the crowd: "Death to the King! Death to Roatta!" An angry column, some 2,000 strong, stormed out of Colosseum Square to the square before the Quirinale. Carabinieri, rifles ready, barred the way. Cried the demonstrators: "Down with the carabinieri" Stones thudded against flesh. Mounted troops pushed back the mob. A machine gun, aimed into the air, chattered ominously. In the scuffle, grenades exploded...
...sickening to watch the Jap mortar shells crash into the men as they climbed. These huge explosive charges-"floating ash cans," we called them-would crash among the thin lines of marines, or among the boats bringing reinforcements to the beach, throwing sand, water and even pieces of human flesh 100 feet into the air. Supporting naval gunfire and planes with bombs managed to knock out some of the mortars, but the Japs continued throwing their deadly missiles all afternoon. By noon the assault battalions reported 20 to 25% fatalities...
...Illinois' ghoulish-minded Brothers Albright were represented by Maine landscapes with as moldy-looking surfaces as the worm's-eye views of decomposing human flesh which made them famous (TIME, July...
China is still too busy pitting flesh & blood against a mechanized enemy to set off any fanfares about her postwar business plans. But China is looking to the future. From Washington this week came news of one blueprint already completed: a full-blown, carefully planned program for a five-year plan of industrialization...