Word: kicked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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More notable than the kick-in-the-teeth plot is the novel technique Director Montgomery uses to tell it. Attempting to put the audience in the detective's shoes, he pretends that the camera is the detective's eyes. Many movies have used this technique in individual scenes, but no Hollywood film has ever before stuck to it consistently through fist fights, automobile chases and lovemaking. In a short introduction to the movie, Montgomery appears at a desk and looks into the camera while explaining that he is Detective Marlowe. Thereafter, he moves (taking the audience with...
...fine, self-sacrificing, humanity-loving, small-town American, somehow manages to seem human. Although a list of his good deeds and worthy aims would put Skeezix to shame, you almost never get that sadistic hope which a saint-like character usually brings on, that overwhelming wish to see him kick an old woman down a flight of stairs or short-change a small boy. Instead, you like him as much as you like the worst heel Bogart ever played, and you're right with him all the way through the picture...
...your came on the bottle-cap?" and he was annoyed when he reached the doctor's office. The questions started--exactly the same as the Grant Study's had been, four years ago, Vag thought. Four years. . . "Do you like people?" What a question! Say no and they kick you out of college? "Yes," he said. Like people! Some people, maybe, but he hated a lot, too, and he hated officiousness and military ways of doing things, and he wanted to forget them. Yet for a little while, please...
...reference to potential Presidents as reviewed in TIME, Dec. 30: I wish to take my hat off to Harold Stassen, who seemed to be not afraid of admitting his political aspirations nor the formulation of a policy to meet the problems confronting us today. A kick in the pants to those would-be leaders who . . . hide behind an open door until they have sensed public sentiment...
...down last week to discuss a compromise with his onetime friend Jack Frye. Present at some meetings of the three-day peace conference was CABoss James M. Landis. He pointedly reminded Hughes and Frye that a major airline was something of a public utility which private individuals could not kick around with impunity. After a final six-hour session, Hughes agreed to lend T.W.A. $10,000,000 (through his Hughes Tool Co.) and back Frye's plan to authorize a new issue of 2,000,000 shares of T.W.A. common stock...