Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Finnish Kalevala. When tourists came to the land of 1,000 lakes, the co-op restaurants in Helsinki served stuffed cabbage, onions and great slices of roast beef. In the summer young people danced on the hilltops under the moon. In the winter they leaped from steam baths into snowbanks and shouted that life was good. They ate wild strawberries and boasted of their glass works, their great forests and their splendid modern buildings...
...element only when dealing with rodents. His deer, like his human characters, are flat, two-dimensional color patterns, animated but lifeless. And his cannel but highly emotional thunderstorms are worse still; they are Disney trying to do what the Lord never intended he should; they are Moon Mullins making an ass of himself on the Flash Gordon page...
...Moon and Sixpence (United Artists) films Somerset Maugham's famed novel more faithfully than any book has ever been filmed before. The result, despite the efforts of a superb cast, is more like a still life than a moving picture...
...Bond Street voice and general air of bemused gentility make a perfect foil for George Sanders' playing of the brutal genius. One of the few cinemactors with any real presence, Sanders has for years been using it to put starch into supporting parts and B pictures. The Moon & Sixpence gives him his first big chance. It also puts his fine performance in a vacuum...
...thing that New York Daily News Publisher Joseph Patterson knows for sure is comics. He used them shrewdly to build his tabloid's record daily circulation (1,975,000). He cooked up several comics (the Gumps, Moon Mullins, Dick Tracy), launched the technique of continuing the episode instead of ending it each day. But until last week he had not bought a new strip for nine years...