Word: movement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...work carpenter and ex-miner. By midmorning, they had tunneled to the well pipe, cut a small exploratory window in its corroded sides. Peering in with mirrors and flashlights, they saw a flash of pink 40 feet below at a bend in the old well pipe. There was no movement...
...loneliest music I know" -symbolizing Auden's characters in the Third Avenue bar. Nearly 30 minutes later, it got to a huge, orgiastic orchestral climax, then resolved into a thoughtful epilogue. Overall, listeners heard more melody and less dissonance than they had come prepared to hear. Standout movement: a rhythmically terrific apotheosis of jazz, with Lennie himself at the piano, backed by bass fiddler and percussion...
AFTER VISITING REFUGEE AND CHILDREN'S CAMPS, TALKING WITH PRISONERS OF WAR, AM ABSOLUTELY CONVINCED GUERRILLA ARMIES COMPOSED OF DIEHARD COMMUNISTS AND CRIMINAL AND LAWLESS ELEMENTS INTENT ON DESTROYING EVERYTHING GREEK WHILE THEY PILLAGE, RAPE AND PLUNDER. PATRIOTS OF RESISTANCE MOVEMENT LEFT GUERRILLAS WHEN GREECE WAS LIBERATED, AND COMMUNISTS TOOK OVER, FOR THEY KNOW COMMUNIST AIM IS TO DESTROY GREECE, MAKE HER A COMMUNIST SATELLITE BY ESTABLISHING RUSSIAN DOMINATION OF MEDITERRANEAN...
...only religious book in the bestseller ranks. Rivaling it in popularity, though not in caliber, are The Greatest Story Ever Told (Fulton Oursler's rewrite of the New Testament), Lloyd Douglas' The Big Fisherman, and Father James Keller's account of the Christopher movement, You Can Change the World. Some hard-boiled book men are cynical at the suggestion that this betokens a "trend." Said Robert W. Faith of a St. Louis Doubleday bookshop: "Some books on two themes always draw interest . . . those on sex and those on religion...
...stunningly photographed and the pace seldom slackens. At its brilliant best in the fight scenes, which are probably the most brutally believable ever screened, Champion is equally good at creating suspense. In a chase sequence, when Midge is being cornered in an empty arena by faceless racketeers, the camera movement in & out of the vast shadowy beehive of tunnels, arcades and aisles is expertly terrifying...