Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From the mid-Pacific battleground, Sherrod cabled: "A small rock memorial near the Betio Club, blockhouses, big guns-everything but a few shot-up am-tracks visible at low tide belongs to the Japanese. It seems fitting to affix a bronze plaque at the base of a white pylon in memory of the United States Marines who won a unique battle there. They provided the lessons for the rest of the journey...
...Brown's Body. He eyed the audience intently to find out just what kind of people he was addressing. Yet he spoke quietly, without the rhetorical crescendos expected from a writer of Inaugurals, and did not seem to revise his delivery according to its impact. His voice was so low-keyed that the people in back complained he was unexciting; those in front were far more moved. It is Goodwin's argument, not his delivery, that is convincing. The man is an analyst, not a salesman...
...Meanies won because they had an unbeatable System. They intimidated the participants and even the audience into playing their way; no blow was too low. Throughout the afternoon of rehearsing, they utilized oppression by numbers, deploying hordes of little men in tight black suits who had no function other than being more people, adding support to whatever the authorities said and subtracting courage from whatever impulses of defiance the dazed team members could muster. The one assigned to shunt us from room to room had just the faintest suggestion of eyes beneath foot-thick glasses with huge black plastic frames...
Outside right Mike Mueller fed a low pass to outside left John Babcock. Babcock dribbled in towards the goal and slammed home a low, hard shot for Yale's initial score. The time was 6:50 of the second stanza...
EDGAR ULMER'S films constitute a relatively unknown group of excellent low-budget pictures made during a period of more than 30 years. His art is in many respects highly pictorial, yet in the most developed films his complicated intellect adds dimension to the straightforward impact of the images. In The Black Cat and The Naked Dawn, initially simple confrontations are made ambiguous by Ulmer's elusive concept of morality. The camera often works against the script in directing audience sympathies, and should we feel secure in our assessment of character relationships, Ulmer will invariably undermine the status...