Word: like
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tulsa (Walter Wanger; Eagle Lion), like a damp fuse, provides a loud bang at the end of a long splutter. Its plot is so rambling and logy with cliches that its climax-a big fire scene-seems wonderfully good...
Aside from the novelty of watching Macready drop a couple of men in their tracks like deer in Sherwood Forest, Allegro is notable for only one thing. It was directed by Ted Tetzlaff, whose sensitive work in a current minor thriller called The Window entitles him to something better than such conveyor-belt assignments...
...readers are always delighted when they find a writer who really acts and talks like one. When Parnassus on Wheels, a quaint little novel about an itinerant bookseller, was published back in 1917, many readers decided that they had found their man. Christopher Morley was clever with a whimsical plot and wrote in the studied, slightly archaic style of another century. The tweedy, pipe-smoke flavor of his looks and books reminded many of the country-squire tradition among English men of letters. With each succeeding Morley work, readers who had cut their teeth on J. M. Barrie...
...nose for Culture were necessary to appreciate the Old Master's offerings. Readers shivered with delight at his rapid-fire quotations and laborious puns, and reverently slipcovered their autographed first editions. They looked the other way when Reviewer Harry Hansen told them that The Trojan Horse (1937) read "like parody"; even the hullabaloo that thousands of not-so-literary Americans kicked up over Kitty Foyle in 1939 only made them smile wisely and congratulate their hero on his versatility...
...Floating Fortresses which guard strategic spots on the sea lanes. Nonetheless, London life is inexpressibly vile-a combination of super-Crippsian austerity and Dachau terrorism. To fall in love is a crime; all passion must be spent on nationalistic fervor and savage hatred of "Emmanuel Goldstein," the Trotzky-like leader of the anti-party underground. All adoration must be devoted to "Big Brother," the Stalinesque dictator whom no one has ever seen, but whose "black-haired, black-mustachio'd" visage, pregnant with "power and mysterious calm," stares from walls in the streets and living rooms. Oceania's ideal...