Word: graphic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...News, with Hearst's Mirror and Bernarr Macfadden's now defunct Graphic, was the ribald historian of the flapper-speakeasy-whoopee '20s. They competed in a pell-mell rush to give Manhattan gum-chewers the lowdown on Fatty Arbuckle, Peaches Browning, Arnold Rothstein, Kip Rhinelander. The grisliest news-picture of the era-Murderess Ruth Snyder in Sing Sing's electric chair-was run by Patterson's personal order...
...obligation seriously. The Administration had bungled and boggled the food problem, had failed to solve it at home as well as failed to relieve it abroad. The U.S. press, cheering victory and peace, had not succeeded in giving its readers-it had not tried very hard to give-the graphic picture of the hunger that stalked the world...
...great and truly glorious thing" in helping to fight it to the end, World War III would be "someone else's war" (an Anglo-Russian war he suggests), and none of our business. Only a few pages in Top Secret lack an argumentative tone-notably a graphic chapter of Ingersoll's own D-day experiences on Utah Beach and beyond. The rest is largely impressions of and reactions to British motives and bad manners, pointed up with notes on high headquarters life and praise for General Omar N. Bradley...
...words were the kind of stuff that Norman Corwin writes-sometimes graphic, frequently inflated. In the background, Leonard Bernstein's New York City Symphony played music that had more than a touch of Shostakovich. It was the première of The Airborne Symphony, Marc (The Cradle Will Rock) Blitzstein's 50-minute history of aviation for orchestra, chorus, speaker and soloists...
...worth volumes of Shakespearean footnotes. For the invasion, the camera, beautifully assisted by the Chorus (Leslie Banks), dissolves in space through a marine backdrop to discover a massive set such as Shakespeare never dreamed of - and dissolves backward in time to the year 1415. Delicately as a photo graphic print in a chemical bath, there emerges the basic style of Shakespearean cinema...