Word: harmful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HARM'S WAY. Pearl Harbor under attack sets the pace for Director Otto Preminger's slick, exciting melodrama of World War II, heroically fought by John Wayne, Patricia Neal, and a seaworthy supporting cast...
...HARM'S WAY. Director Otto Preminger steers John Wayne, Patricia Neal and a shipshape supporting cast through the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and a long series of happenings that follow...
...satire. Brynner's part is taken by the Rao Jagnabad, a glitteringly bejeweled, savagely personable hunter-princeling known as the Nine-Tiger Man. When the Sepoy Mutiny erupts in Delhi, the English dispatch their women to the Rao's palace, confident that they will be out of harm's way. The Rao briskly institutes a private mutiny of his own. He transforms the matrons into concubines, and the proper Victorians are soon fighting to embrace a fate worse than death. The romantic and violent 19th century is Author Lesley Blanch's special province. Painter, stage designer...
...Racial Imbalance and Education came as no surprise. The eminence of the men who prepared the Report--among others Cardinal Cushing, former Attorney-General Edward McCormack, and four college Presidents--did not deter Mrs. Hicks. Neither did the appended sixty pages of research papers, which described the educational harm done to both Negro and white children by racial imbalance. Nor was the majority of the School Committee impressed by the raw statistics--the student bodies of 29 Boston schools are more than 75% Negro--nor by the detailed suggestions which, if put into practice, would drastically reduce racial imbalance...
With half a dozen plots to juggle, Preminger keeps all of them interesting for at least two of the three hours spent In Harm's Way. At one moment he shrewdly plays the grimness of war against the undeniable glamour of it, next diverts the flow of sentimental clichés into a vein of snappish humor. "I'd enjoy meeting your son," says Meredith. "Naw-you wouldn't," grumbles Wayne, eying the lad across a messroom with eloquent distaste. Other scenes crackle comfortably: O'Neal cravenly having his backbone slapped into shape...