Word: lookout
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fifth afternoon a lookout on the minesweeper U.S.S. Token spotted Gus Frazer, unconscious, sitting upright in the boat, his hand still near the tiller. Sammy, still alive, died half an hour after his rescue. His parents' bodies were still in the boat...
Here we see the United States, supposedly involved in a fight for freedom, contrasted with another land where people are really free. And the contrast is not pleasant. The message that "The Day the Earth Stood Still" brings is not that we better be on the lookout for an invasion from above. Rather it shows how petty the squabbles between nations really are, and more important, that these squabbles have blinded our thinking. This is a frightening movie, not because of any startling photography, but because here we can really see to what depths the world has sunk...
Sandrino Verges! was on the lookout for the ideal woman. For an angel-faced Italian youngster of 16, his tastes were rather special. "First she resists, and then she lets you gradually kill her, bit by bit . . . I want the feeling of having something that defends itself and that you slowly crush and crush and crush until the life's crushed out of it." In the next room to his, sharing the same grubby apartment house, Sandrino finds someone to his sadistic little heart's desire...
What McMahon was pointing at was the so-called "China Lobby." He had issued his lookout's cry once before, during the MacArthur hearing, when the Republicans were blasting the Administration's Far East policy. McMahon had countered with dark charges of the sinister efforts of a "China Lobby" to draw the U.S. into Chiang Kai-shek's camp...
...physical facilities are concerned, Eliot has its good and bad sides. The good side looks out over the river or on one of the finest of the House courtyards. The bad sides boast not only a full view of the subway yards, but also an excellent lookout on the alleyway where food is brought into the central kitchen and garbage is noisily removed in the early hours of the morning...