Word: modeles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...During a pompous colonel's illustrated lecture on aircraft recognition, a soldier slips in a blow-up of a scantily clad girl, converting the lecture into a bedlam of double-entendres ("This model is stripped for action...
...Nimitz' able new press chief, Captain Harold B. ("Min") Miller, 42, an Annapolis-trained airman, torpedo expert, author (short stories in Cosmopolitan, American Magazine), former U.S. Naval Air Attache in London. Captain Miller, who wrote the fast and full communique on the Battle of the Philippine Sea, a model of its kind, is the most likely candidate to become the Navy's top public relations man when and if Rear Admiral A. S. ("Tip") Merrill goes back to sea. Captain Miller's go-ahead stems from the fight of press-conscious Navy Secretary James Forrestal (a -spectator...
Having Wonderful Crime, in keeping with its title, is broader and dizzier than the new Thin Man, rather less shrewd and professional, but on the whole just about as entertaining. Whereas Thin's Nick & Nora Charles are a first-rate detective and a grade-A, sport-model wife, Crime's three amateurs (Pat O'Brien, George Murphy and Carole Landis) are cheerful dopes. Once they find Magician George Zucco daggered in his trunk in a resort hotel, they hightail off after every red herring in sight. Nicest character: a daft old dowager who likes to write gigantic...
...content. So many of these period pieces are in technicolor, with gala balls and sparkling lights. "Experiment Perlious emphasizes plush and bric-a-brac furnishings of the claustrophobic New York houses that graced the day and are in many cases still standing; in this respect it excels its cinematic model, "Gaslight...
...Madame was a real Joan of Arc ! The vendeuse led the way to a dressing room. Heroically Madame took off her coat, then her extra lining, then, with thin-lipped determination, her dress. The vendeuse clucked her admiration of such courage. Deftly she inserted Madame into the model of the new gown. Expertly she arranged mirrors so that Madame could have a comprehensive look before grabbing her coat again. These were days for prompt decisions. Madame would take the gown? Bien...