Word: motioning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this kind of dramatic handicap bothers Shaw the way an out-of-tune piano would have hurt Beethoven. What the playwright loses in motion and physical life he more than makes up for in intellectual content. Indeed, making Joan proud, self-righteous, and a military crusader adds intellectual spice to such questions as "Was she really guilty?" and "Would we burn her today?" It also leads up to the nationalism, monarchism, and Protestantism that Joan purportedly represents, and to some fine razzle-dazzle Shavian dialogue on these topics. In many ways the scenes in which these questions are most thoroughly...
...American Motion Picture industry should take note of the ability of the Japanese to produce visually appealing movies. The Phantom Horse, now playing at the Exeter Theater, is another realistic, sensitive, and artistically-designed film...
...Japan is impatient for a settlement, Shigemitsu is fearful that before the talks end he may have to agree to an Adenauer formula, i.e., resuming normal diplomatic relations without gaining any major concessions. Premier Hatoyama is so confident of some sort of settlement that he has already set in motion a merging of government security agencies in expectation of an upsurge in Soviet propaganda and espionage when the Russians return to Tokyo in force...
...with a Camera. Nofri's comrades, including Mayor Cerofolino, stormed and threatened, but true to his decision, Nofri joined the Christian Democrats and began to campaign actively against "Marxist corruption and confusion." On Mayor Ce-rofolino's motion, the party denounced Nofri as an "outcast and traitor." Cerofolino himself was put on the spot by his party superiors for "failure to maintain rank-and-file discipline...
...whom Kurt Bonine is merely the latest. Almost all of them are millionaires, and the effect Helen has on them is generally deadly. She drove Brett Chapman, millionaire ' rancher, to exile in South America. Dwight Swanson, oilman, piloted his plane into a crash and died. Kelcey Spencer, motion-picture tycoon, went off a cliff to his death. But Dick Waring, a madman, was sane only with Helen...