Word: like
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Quartet," an English expert like the author, dramatizes four of his neat but contrived short stories which enjoy this virtue of carrying the audience along at a satisfying pace. Of course the usual Maugham vices are sometimes present...
...second short opus. "Alien Corn" would like to be a bit of tragedy. A young man, frustrated in his sole ambition of becoming a concert pianist, takes his life. Here one of Mr. Maugham's vices creeps in. Lack of depth of emotion allows this piece to deteriorate to the level of a tabloid suicide at the end, though the whole thing is done with rich piano accompaniment, to be sure...
...Western Cartridge division of the Winchester Repeating Arms company should like "White Heat;" the movie utilizes a good number of its products. During the running of James Cagney's re-entry into the bad-man field, the various principals expend nine 30-30 rifle bullets, three dozen 32 caliber special expanding nose pistol cartridges, one blasting charge, and nine size D tear gas shells...
Father Feeney, believing firmly that there is no salvation outside of the Catholic Church and that any other doctrine is a misinterpretation of the true dogma, has built St. Benedict's Center up from a recreation hall to a school. His scholars join in "bull sessions" like those of the early days and answer students' questions with certainty. Father Feeney said they answer questions the average college student would not be willing to put to a priest...
...brand-new Lincolns with loop-antennas projecting through their roofs. Finally caught in an oil refinery, Mr. Cagney is shot down by four more of those fine, accurate rifle bullets. One of the bullets touches off the gas storage tank upon which he is perched, and he dies, laughing like hell. He is probably laughing at all the money Warner Brothers and the cops have paid out to bring him down...