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Besides a large number of gooey lines like this, Bright Victory also contains a love story and a sermon against prejudice. Then, of course, there is the "heart-throbbing" music--in case one doesn't realize that it's time...
...into prophetic genius-is still a neat trick, and the new movie has some fun with it. But Actor Power lacks Actor Howard's charm and talent, and his inter-century romance with Ann Blyth (who turns up at the end in a 20th century reincarnation) makes something gooey and adolescent out of what once seemed hauntingly otherworldly. The picture may give moviegoers a yen to go backward in time themselves, if only to 1933, when Leslie Howard was starring in Berkeley Square...
Next day there was a thaw, gooey mud and another sharp fight for ancient, ruined Suwon. After a go-minute battle, the Chinese were driven out and the town pronounced "secure." Suwon itself was not an important objective; the Americans just wanted to deny it to the enemy as a staging base...
Just after Howell got busy with his planes and generators, New York began having a miserable spring and early summer of warm rains, cold drizzles and sticky fogs. In the Catskills it rained and rained. The important sweet corn crop was badly damaged; weeds grew high in fields too. gooey to cultivate. Farmers threatened to shoot Howell; so did resort owners. "Look," said Julius Slutsky, a proprietor of the upstate Nevele Hotel (which tried to sue New York City), "our guests come from New York City. They don't know much about the country. They say, 'They...
...days of rain had made an "off track" certain for the 74th running of Pimlico's Preakness last week. That suited Trainer Casey Hayes fine; his Hill Prince, runner-up to Middleground in the Kentucky Derby, revels in gooey going. Middleground's trainer, canny Max Hirsch, was not so happy: "My horse is very definitely suited to a fast track. I believe he can run in sticky going, but I am not sure." With an eye on the weather, Hirsch waited until the morning of the race to have his horse shod with mud caulks...