Word: motions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...motion picture industry, whose aim is always to please the greatest number, last week staged its sequel to the big show put on by the Thomas Un-American Activities Committee. Fifty of the industry's top executives, representing virtually every U.S. film producer, got together in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. After two days of conferences, they fired the ten Hollywood writers and producers cited for contempt of Congress for refusing to testify whether or not they are Communists...
...opposition stayed drunk for three full days. Purpose of this blueprinted binge was not escape, but sabotage of the hated measure (a mild bill for government control of Japan's coal mines). When the Speaker called for a preliminary vote, alcoholic catcalls greeted him. Then surow mow (slow motion) set in. Opposition members slowly sauntered to the ballot box. One of them, loudly complaining of an injured leg, took two minutes to climb the six-step rostrum to the ballot box. Others, magnificently squiffed, zigzagged through the chamber, stopped to chat with friends en route...
...matter how Indierons the plot, or absurd the characters, it is impossible to dislike a DeMille motion picture. DeMille has captured the romantic spirit necessary to an adventure film, combined it with constant and furious action, and with them has woven a pattern of continuous delight that is never dull for movie audiences over the past twenty-five years...
While the question of a Security Council-sponsored police force has been raised in the U.N. many times, the motion has always stalled on the two-headed, green-eyed problem of sovereignty and national interest. Palestine security posed the very same problems that have always sapped the United Nations of its intended strength. The U.S. didn't want to offend, any more than possible, the wealthy owners of Arabian oil lands; any concentration of Russian troops in the Middle East seemed strategically unwise; and small nations refused to sacrifice their tiny armies to the cause of international police. The stakes...
Fables once proffered morals painlessly. Today they are seldom dispensed with as much ease except in a rare novel or motion picture. Such a picture is "Frieda" that may be considered all the more exceptional for having come out of war-scarred England. For "Frieda" convincingly expounds the moral that Germans are human beings and a blanket indictment of them or any people fails to recognize human differences. Hardly a palatable axiom in itself for many Englishmen today, but it becomes so at the hands of Swedish actress Mei Zetterling and a cast all of whom deserve equal plaudits...