Word: make
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...film has enough seamy passion, sordid heroism, and familiar props (a smoky nightclub like the one in Casablanca, repeated torch-singing of a Tin Pan Alley tune) to make it a caricature of a Bogart film. Wearing his old trench coat and mouthing a cigarette. Bogart returns to Tokyo after the war to start a small freight airline backed by a blank-faced racketeer (oldtime silent Cinemactor Sessue Hayakawa). By the time the comic-book plot has run its course, Bogart has saved his ex-wife (Florence Marly) from exposure as a Tokyo Rose, stopped the infiltration of war criminals...
...Long Ride. This, says Asch in effect, is how it might have been. He has borrowed from the Gospels, borrowed from the Apocrypha, borrowed from the traditions of Jewish life. His central purpose has been to make Christians and Jews realize what they have in common: "It has been my intention to demonstrate the interdependence of the two faiths in the hope that mutual understanding might bring about a better world...
Director Levy is now conducting a frantic search for a "retired soft-shoe artist out to make a fast buck" to teach Rettenberg a passable routine, He says that urchin street-dancers, "if they have a flair," might be considered as a last resort...
...said that the club is also founding satellite clubs in colleges in other New England states. His aim is to make the HYRC a major force in the New England GOP and later, he hopes, in the national party...
...wanted an investigation by a competent authority. Acknowledging that practical recommendations require expert technical advice, they proposed a survey by a paid investigation agency. The Administration felt that this would be too expensive and instead finally requested Mr. Andrew Seiler, a food expert on the regular visiting committee, to make an informal study of the plant...