Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...excellent instance of what can be accomplished by capable mediocrity when given an opportunity to express itself. Mr. Riggs has been clever enough to realize the wealth of artistic material in the vigorous, stinking lewdness of the small-time professional ring, and although he is hampered by a lack of highly skilled technical ability, he has succeeded well in congealing on paper, the brutal spirit of his subject...
Take, for example, the treatment of death in this movie. Death opens and closes the covers of the story; it is in fact, the all pervading, the only certain, element. Yet it strikes always swiftly, always surely, always, as such things go, with an impressive lack of fuss. The troop is winding along the desert; the lieutenant in command is shot down from ambush, and with him to the grave, go the men's orders and geographical location. Under Victor McLaglen, top sergeant, the remaining eleven find their way to an oasis. Next morning, the youthful sentry is found knifed...
Dodsworth's dramatic impact is cerebral rather than physical. Some of Designer Jo Mielziner's eight crafty settings are repeated to mount 14 scenes on shipboard, in Zenith, Paris, Berlin, Naples, London, Switzerland. Occasional lack of restraint in the direction is well covered by the acting of Fay Bainter and Walter...
...resigned from the college's finance committee. So did Sylvester W. Labrot, the committee's chairman. Friends of the Board of Trustees said that strongwilled, patrician Dr. Gordon had failed to "cooperate," that he had coddled rich students, snubbed and tyrannized others. But Gordon friends declared his lack of cooperation had been chiefly in a stand against loose financing, unwarranted free scholarships for board members' friends. Last week a representative committee of St. John's 300 students issued a statement viewing President Gordon's departure with "genuine regret," declaring he had won the "support...
Disorganized from lack of practice and surprised by the unexpected strength of the Eli sextet, the J.V. hockey team was defeated Saturday in the Garden...