Word: fuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...King's Men (Columbia), a movie version of Robert Penn Warren's 1947 Pulitzer Prizewinning novel, is a tabloid view of a power-mad politician who has set his heart on bossing the world. The best of recent Hollywood attempts to fuse studio and documentary styles, this slam-bang indictment of grass-roots demagoguery is full of punch and color: melodramatic shots of campaign barbecues, torchlight parades, legislative brawling and backroom political deals...
Eight pieces of fire equipment roared up to Kuppersmith's Florist Shop on Brattle Street last night to put out a fire which started in the fuse box. As the crowd of approximately 300 applauded politely the firemen put out the conflagration within ten minutes...
Sobriety's rise had one interruption. Lloyd posed for a publicity gag shot lighting a cigarette from the lighted fuse of a small bomb. Someone had made a mistake: the bomb was no fake. It exploded, blowing a hole in the ceiling and taking away part of Lloyd's face and the thumb and index finger of his right hand. Only determination pulled him through the accident and the subsequent surgery. But back into the movie business he went. The intent, slightly bewildered, obviously virtuous face of Harold Lloyd began popping out at movie audiences in thousands...
Tulsa (Walter Wanger; Eagle Lion), like a damp fuse, provides a loud bang at the end of a long splutter. Its plot is so rambling and logy with cliches that its climax-a big fire scene-seems wonderfully good...
...taken a box of fish to the airline office, where it was weighed in and tagged. He insisted on taking the box to the airfield. Between the office and the airfield he was met by Salazar, who transferred the tags to a similar box containing dynamite and a time fuse crudely made from an old timing device used in permanent-wave machines. The fuse, originally set to go off in 15 minutes, had been adjusted by a watchmaker who changed the time to 45 minutes. They put the box aboard the plane...