Word: human
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...theme that has required three years of labor to produce. Perhaps what makes this a masterpiece of cinema entertainment, in addition to the color medium and settings, is the actual creation of seven individual characters, all of them dwarfs made with pen and ink, yet all tremendously human...
When the biggest thing on the air is a dummy and the biggest thing in moving pictures is a septet of gnomes America is certainly tottering toward the fiery pit, albeit in a pleasantly pixilated fashion. A nation, like a human being, is most successfully judged by what if does in its leisure hours, and by using the films as an index it is a simple thing to trace the growth of these United States...
...seek a mate among women to worship as an idol. We do not approach her feeling the biological urge as we once did in the days of Clara Bow, for now beauty to us is metaphysical and intellectual. In our wisdom we know we can never find her in human form, though we need her badly. But at last we have found her, and she is the essence of perfect virtue. Her name is Snow White...
Companies his results with isolated human cases, Dr. Drinker reasoned that the worker: who succumbed might have suffered unnoticeable liver changes from the fumes which made them easy victims of relatively innocuous diseases. To check this he took rats which had been exposed to the fumes and which had supposedly suffered liver injuries and administered a treatment known to attack that organ...
...Holliday-are examined with an understanding gained from Hemingway's studies of later desperadoes. They emerge as quick on the trigger as ever, but hard-up instead of heroic, dissatisfied, bewildered, trapped. Although they start shooting at the hint of an insult, they, too, eat dirt, have their human share of humiliations in the pursuit of women and wealth...