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...outgrowth of the American genre is the detective farce, of which Craig Rice (and Elliot Paul, in a different way) is an exponent. She invests unholy living and heinous dying with a high atmosphere of mixed excitement and amusement. The excitement is provided by realism of a sort-the realism which goes with the ruthlessness of gangsters and other criminal ugliness-and it is set to dialogue of the Hemingway type...
These and the other references to acetate are undoubtedly errors, since this term as commonly used refers to cellulose acetate, widely employed in making cellulosic thermoplastics and textiles. Apparently acetone, a highly inflammable liquid, large quantities of which are made in Germany, was used by the heinous SS guards, rather than acetate...
Salvemini added, "Juridical international law is inadequate and must be supplemented by a moral international law derived from statements in the peace treaty that starting war is one of the most heinous of crimes and whoever does so is guilty and liable to punishment...
Joel Ashley as the heinous Mr. C. is more than adequate and the minor parts and technical production are all well handled but present nothing out of the ordinary...
...minutes after they arrived . . . they were accosted by an M.P., who demanded their passes. Because of some technical error in the passes, he marched them off to jail. There they stayed for three days, along with some 25 other men from our division who had committed the same heinous crime. They were fed on C rations during this time, given a pro-(that's funny to us) and finally taken back to the rest center in time to catch their return boat under armed guard." Concluded Corporal Brennan and Pri vate Sill with restrained wrath: "Do re sponsible authorities...