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...Belle's mission takes its crew among prodigious scenes which have seldom been so well recorded. Even the take-off into the mild sunlight has grandeur. As the swift ground shrivels into easy, floating legibility, cinemaddicts feel that sudden magical suction in the midriff which the actual experience brings. Climax of this effect: a magnificent close-up of the landing gear as it retracts, flattening like the feet of a bird in flight, and disclosing the countryside. Technicolor comes fully into its own when the Belle and the planes of her formation climb steadily over the North Sea, striating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Apr. 17, 1944 | 4/17/1944 | See Source »

...ties and rhinestones. But as time wears on, Gambler Grant, who is of Greek extraction, develops a tender conscience as a result of the courage of his compatriots and his love for eager Heiress Day. So he heroically double-crosses his pals, recovers from a consequent slug in the midriff and renders himself worthy of Cinemactress Day by joining the Merchant Marine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Sep. 20, 1943 | 9/20/1943 | See Source »

...stood in his corner, still talking to his seconds, and he didn't know what struck him. The challenger had hit him over the head with a water bottle. As he got up, dazed, and swung around, the challenger with all his might hit him squarely in the midriff with a heavy wooden stool. Staggered and hurt, the champion, instead of carrying the fight to his opponent, as he had planned, found the fight under way before he was ready, found himself being pushed around the ring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: THE FIRST SIX MONTHS | 6/8/1942 | See Source »

...North American Continent. Already the beaches of the Atlantic were stained with the brown blood of ships that could not be spared. Now oily hemorrhages spread on the flats of two great rivers. One of them was the St. Lawrence. Between its wildly beautiful banks, in the midriff of stubbornly isolationist Quebec, the German crept and waited. He nailed two ships in inland waters, and Quebec began searching its soul as it had never searched before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC: Too Close for Comfort | 5/25/1942 | See Source »

...Producer-Director Herbert Kline and Author John Steinbeck, refused to delete two protested sequences: 1) a woman nursing her child; 2) a woman in labor. The birth is not shown -merely the medieval method of assisting labor by drawing a shawl tight across the fully-clothed mother's midriff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Pictures | 12/8/1941 | See Source »

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