Word: mad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Could the auto market stand such a rise? It probably could, in the present mad scramble for cars. Despite indications that only one in every four orders is a "solid" one, there have been few rejections of cars by customers. Mass turndowns because of price rises seemed a long way off. But many another industry, where the demand was not so great, could not take this easy way out. They had Charlie Wilson's troubles, but could not use his solution...
Everybody's in the Act. The roster of ICCASP's Manhattan and Hollywood chapters might have sprung directly from a mad director's loveliest dream. Frank Sinatra is one of its hardest-working speakers. It can call on Gypsy Rose Lee to bare her navel and William Rose Benét to write a script. Lena Horne will sing at any rally and Walter Huston will recite the Gettysburg Address. Fredric March belongs, and so do Eddie Cantor, Charles Boyer, Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Charles Laughton and Robert Young...
Freddie Bartholomew, willowy ex-child-actor, now 22 and a married man, whistled like mad for an hour along a busy Manhattan street, finally gave up. A $50 reward for the return of Mitsou, his lost red chow, brought his pet back next...
...straight adventure the picture is good. Paramount's standard conception of a mad seacaptain becomes something very far from stock in Howard da Silva's fine, complex, pent-up performance. William Bendix is real and frightening as his brutal and devoted first mate, and Brian Donlevy is resolute and sympathetic whenever he has a chance. Alan Ladd suffers, fights and makes up to womankind with his usual chilly proficiency and Barry Fitzgerald scuttles obscurely around in the galley, making all he can of his few lines...
...Author Kavan's mad characters asks, "to whom can one appeal when one does not even know where to find the judge? How can one ever hope to prove one's innocence when there is no means of knowing of what one has been accused? No, there's no justice for people like us in the world: all that we can do is to suffer as bravely as possible and put our oppressors to shame...