Word: gunning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Communist import. His mural in blue, buffs and warm greys will show from left to right "a man, woman and child; a dog, cow and vegetation, with books and instruments at their feet; a triangular group of skyscrapers, rising above churches, temples, etc. of a former time; a huge gun flanked by two masks and backed by a ruined arch." Boardman Robinson, mild radical, one-time cartoonist for the radical New Masses, might have explained this excitingly. His soothing explanation was that he wanted ''to show how relatively unimportant all machinery and material progress is compared...
...bombs, machine gun fire and military expedition last week were reminders to General Tang of the might of Imperial Japan. Soon Tang announced, "I have taken steps to rescue Captain Ishimoto...
...flamingo wings, the slithering of crocodiles along wet rocks, the Martin Johnsons' phonograph playing jazz. There is little pretense of danger. Audiences still shift in their seats when two tons of horny rhinoceros rush at the camera, but the statistical safety of the man or woman with the gun makes the thrill meretricious. More valid is the leisurely charm of the studies of the pygmies, the hippopotamuses, the waterhole. Five minutes of rare comedy are developed from nothing but two pygmies' attempt to light a cigar. Probably anyone with the fare could have taken a sound camera along...
...father (Robert Warwick) and brother (Robert Young) see through his disingenuousness. Helen does not. To force a marriage, Owsley takes her to a hotel overnight, confronts the father next morning. Wild-eyed from an all-night search, the brother is knocked down by the suitor, gets a gun and shoots...
...Odin sets it free. Bendek admires that kind of spirit - "he can be whatever he chooses, par son or pirate, that one" - but he has not so much of it as Odin. On a dare from the Jörnstrand boys Odin takes Bendek's bewitched otter-gun, shoots a grey troll-creature that appears on an island offshore. When Bendek discovers that the troll-creature was his grey ram, he goes wild, sends Odin back to his mother...