Word: motioning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pilot to control a heavy plane as easily as a child steers its bicycle. The device, called a "formation stick," has an arm rest and a pistol-gripped lever, which can be flicked in any direction by a finger touch. Electronics does the rest : the stick's motion is converted into an amplified electrical signal which operates the motors which operate the plane's control surfaces...
Wasted is the word for the performances of Joseph Cotton, Ginger Rogers, and Spring Byington in this motion picture. Miss Byington is perfect as the understanding mother of, unfortunately, Miss Temple; Miss Rogers pertrays an extremely difficult role, with great skill, although one begins to have difficulty imagining her as twentyish. Cotten has perhaps the only worthwhile scene in the film: a five-minute psychoneurotic's battle with himself for control of his mind, and he does it with unbelievable dignity and power...
Finally, every legislator had said his say on a CCF motion criticizing the Tory administration. Then up rose big, slick Premier George Alexander Drew. Said he: he would accept an adverse vote on the motion as evidence of lack of confidence. It took just two minutes for him to get his answer: no confidence...
Even as you watch the immensities of a sea choked with craft, and realize the incalculably great massing and brandishing of skill and purpose assembled there, the whole motion forward has the involuntariness of a convulsion. Even as you look from a plane steep into the sea, and note the amazingly regular patterns of the wakes, it is more as if a stone had been gashed by the claws of a great beast. And along the ashen island, men and machines flounder and founder as desperately, and with as little apparent clarity of intention, as if they themselves were phantasms...
...simple story (Roddy McDowall breaks and trains Thunderhead; Thunderhead runs a race, kills a wild Albino stallion that has been raising hob among the local mares and becomes king of the herd) keeps horses constantly moving in the open air, across grandiose Northwestern landscapes. Horses in motion are always cinegenic, whether or not the motion makes any other sort of sense; and a couple of fights in this picture are dramatic as well as beautiful to watch. Best performance is the Albino's: his intransigent head, scornful mouth and ice-blue eye make him look like a creature...