Word: flesh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gutted, smoldering landscape. It was wholly due to the presence there of dirty, sour-smelling, bloodied American troops poking about in the smoky rubble looking for souvenirs. Among their souvenirs were 1,671 dead Japanese (so far counted), sodden, mustard-colored bags of dusty, mustard-colored flesh ballooning n the humid sunlight, attracting only flies and burial squads. Soon to be souvenirs were isolated Jap units which had taken refuge in the slimy shadow of nearby man grove swamps. A few of the estimated 5,000 of the original garrison had possibly escaped, by barge or destroyer, in the artillery...
This Is the Army (Warner) on Techni-colored celluloid should make the flesh version's $1,951,045.11 (earned for Army Emergency Relief) look like eleven cents in a deserving bucket. For it offers U.S. cinemaudiences the rare pleasure of feeling generous toward a generous...
...might have gone on until Miss Bergman inherited the shawl of Ouspenskaya but for a second Selznick brainstorm. Selznick decided that vociferous blandishments, promises and temptations by cable were still a shade too Hollywood, and quit wearying the wires with them. This was a task, he now realized, for flesh and blood. Considering Miss Bergman's mental picture of an American female executive, the casting of the role was brilliantly lucky. He sent over a particularly tactful lady named Kay Brown. And that did it. Miss Bergman was braced to resist something in unshaven tweeds with a Cremo breath...
Something Rare. Even without talent, Miss Bergman would bring something rare to U.S. films. To cite one single asset which is hers almost exclusively, her photographed flesh looks neither like a Crane fixtures ad nor sponge rubber nor the combined efforts of a fashionable portraitist and a rural mortician; it looks like flesh. Many people, since life must go on, find this attractive, even when it surprises them to see it on the screen. The same thing goes for her poise, sincerity, reticence, sensitiveness and charm...
...Miami News Editorialist Francis P. Locke argued that to fire Schweitzer verged on tyranny. Next day he wrote: "A sad blow to the ideals for which we are fighting . . . flesh and blood and bones of democracy . . . torn, spilled and crushed...