Word: fright
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...kakemono is stylized-painted strictly according to Japanese convention. It represents a wind god with animal horns, ears, tusks and claws, plunging headlong, pop-eyed with fright, after his bag of wind...
...murderer; Greta Gynt is blowsily sexy as the wife. The forces of British law & order are, as usual, so immaculately polite about their business that it might tempt some U.S. observers to mayhem, just for the pleasure of meeting them. Occasionally there is a flicker of ingenuity or fright, but most of this picture is sad, stock-company stuff...
...Sergei Rachmaninoff had already arrived as a composer. But the night his first symphony had its premiere he was full of fright. Recalling it years later, he wrote: "I stepped out to the fire escape to hide. There I remained throughout the performance. . . . Soon I found myself on the Nevsky Prospekt, where I wandered aimlessly...
Take My Life (Rank; Eagle-Lion). An opera singer's husband is accused of strangling a former mistress; his wife (sumptuous Greta Gynt) finds out whodunit. This English thriller in the Hitchcock tradition is no world-shaker, but it is done with intelligence and a flair for fright...
...first day, when Communist Minister of the Interior Vaclav Nosek "discovered" the National Socialist Party's conspiracy against the state, Prague shivered with cold and fright. Truckloads of armed police with brand-new automatic rifles rumbled through the streets. Opposition leaders were arrested and Parliament, scheduled to meet next day, postponed the session indefinitely. Archbishop Beran of Prague was refused permission to pray for peace on the Communist-controlled Prague radio. In the streetcars, which used to be favorite political forums, passengers were silent. President Eduard Benes' executive office announced that the President "asks all citizens to maintain...