Word: maze
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Witness (Eagle Lion Classics) sends a brassy U.S. defense lawyer to England on a tough murder case, and then watches him stumble through a baffling maze of provincial customs and courtroom procedure. The plot is predictable, but Producer Joan Harrison and Director-Star Robert Montgomery wring some wry chuckles from their bull-in-the-china-shop situation, and keep the story moving at a lively clip...
Before the plane can take off, the commander and his flight engineer spend an hour chanting their way down a 600-item check list to be certain every one of their maze of controls is working-and will work in the air. The engineer operates from a console of 120 dials and gadgets, spends nearly half of every hour logging their readings. Just figuring the miles-per-gallon on a 5,000-ft. climb keeps him scribbling for 20 minutes. "A man can just about keep up with his work if the flight is ideal and not a damn thing...
Night after night, Japanese bombs tore bigger & bigger patches out of the maze of ramshackle houses. Sewage piled up in gutters, disease spread and Chungking rats grew fat and impudent. The air-raid warning system was complicated: in addition to sirens, colored lanterns were hung from poles at night (when they were lit, it meant that the enemy was approaching; when they were suddenly dropped, it meant that the planes were almost over head). But the system worked. Night after night most of Chungking's people trudged to the big caves outside the town where most of them slept...
Ring wrote blasts denouncing Trotskyites, signed an open letter defending the Moscow purge trials, sponsored the American Youth for Democracy, opposed the "imperialist" war until Hitler turned it into "a people's war" by invading Russia. Like a mouse in a maze, he followed every turn and twist of the party line...
Twisting and turning, she took her audience with her on her Errand into the Maze, the soul's fight against fear. After that one, Martha took seven curtain calls. But as she proceeded with her company into other labyrinthine concepts, such as Eye of Anguish and Cave of the Heart, the applause dwindled. At the finale, most of the bravos came from U.S. fans...