Word: lended
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...filming, the camera's merciless eye often annihilates the indispensable illusion of theater, leaping the distance that might lend more credibility to Olivier's thundercloud performance. His makeup looks false, and through the blackface gleams a supreme actor's intelligence, timing every phrase, calculating effects, revealing the mechanics of his trade in monstrous closeups. It is a spectacular display of virtuosity, but seldom very real or deeply moving or quite subservient to the Moor...
...enacted in August, which outlawed literacy tests and other registration practices used by Southern states to keep Negroes off the voting rolls. Joining South Carolina in attacking the law were five sister states also directly affected by the bill-Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and Virginia. To lend moral support to Katzenbach and the Federal Government, 20 other states were represented as amid curiae...
Hudgins' job now is to find enough money to lend, especially since he plans to open a branch in Bedford-Stuyvesant, New York's other big Negro ghetto. To help attract new deposits, he preaches Sundays in Harlem churches. His invariable sermon subject: the virtue of thrift...
...reluctant Reds are pretty much ignored. Munk's antihero (Edward Dziewonski) is a self-seeking womanizer who cynically boasts that he survived the occupation by "buying and selling." He shares his easy-to-bed wife (Barbara Polomska) with an enemy Hungarian officer, learns that the fleeing Hungarians will lend men and guns to help the Polish Home Army. Before the Poles refuse, the drunken, don't-give-a-damn patriot hustles messages back and forth, so ludicrous a target that a thundering German tank blasts him only with derision. At one point, he joins a long line...
...code's supporters hope that it might lend to legislative action on pro-arraignment procedures -- either through state law - including such matters as search, seizure, arrest, questioning, bail, the right to detain, and confessions -- is now determined by individual court cases...