Word: impactions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time to watch a train smack both of them into smithereens. In Los Angeles, when the Homer Cliffords' auto stalled on a railroad track, confident Mrs. Clifford kept her seat while her husband tried to push the car off the track before a train arrived. She survived the impact...
...Washington was just beginning to feel the full impact of the Nov. 3 election results. Democratic leaders privately admitted that great blocks of labor, farm and independent votes-once the keystone of the peculiar New Deal Alliance-had gone Republican. Said one wise old New Deal Congressman last week: "Unless we can reverse this political tide, the Democratic Party faces defeat in 1944. I don't know whether...
...around Laval, contrasted with the resolute faces of Fighting Frenchmen as they enlist under De Gaulle in London. There is one memorable glimpse of the cold, incredulous fury in the eyes of the victims of Laval's industrial draft. In such shots The Fighting French has the fierce impact of a Daumier drawing. More important, the picture conveys a cumulative sense of a nation possessing not only the spirit but the gathering power to make a comeback...
...encore after encore. And the colorful "Bluebeard" which made a one hour sprint to the finish of the show couldn't efface the effect on the Schoenberg masterpiece. Startlingly crotic despite the Victorian costumes, and moving languidly to a climax, "Pillar of Fire" had the comprehensibility and emotional impact of a drama as well as the grace of ballet technique. But the entire program was masterful with the balance of contrasting classical, modern-dramatic, and comic techniques...
...Battle of Midway (20th Century-Fox) should be seen by all Americans. Here are the first official shots of U.S. troops in actual combat, pictures of the young, tense, grinning, lean, clean, finedrawn faces of American boys before, during and after a great and terrible battle. The impact is quick as a wound and deep as loneliness...