Word: numb
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...first picture since Queen Christina, Greta Garbo gives a triumphant performance. As beautiful as ever but less numb than usual, she achieves the difficult feat of making Katrin seem more a human being than a fictionized heroine. Richard Boleslavski's direction is slow but sure; the picture gathers power steadily toward the finish. Its only thoroughly weak spot is a Chinese festival staged by Chester Hale to lend "production value"-a sequence which looks as if it had just finished an engagement at the Winter Garden. Good shot: Greta Garbo at dinner wondering how much her husband knows...
...York a surgeon made an incision from front to back of Carl Meyer's head, lifted the flap, removed an inch-long tumor from his brain. Numb with local anesthesia, Carl Meyer held up a mirror, took a good long look inside his cranium...
...bushmaster hates captivity. Surrounded by tropical foliage and plenty of food, it goes on a sullen hunger strike. Attempts at forced feeding numb it with rage, paralyze its digestion. It starves to death in four or five months. Snakeman March, now possessor of the only known bushmaster in captivity, may have better luck since he will keep his catch in its native habitat...
...moment Senator Glass looked dumfounded. Then in a quavering voice he announced: "Mr. President, I have just been apprised of a fact very, very distressing to the nation generally and to me particularly. Former President Coolidge has just dropped dead. I think the Senate should immediately adjourn." Numb with shock, the Senate adjourned...
...adaptation of Author Hemingway's sad novel and remembering that it made a wretched play, expected it to be a classic botch. But the picture emerges as a compelling and beautifully imagined piece of work, brilliantly directed by Frank Borzage, acted to perfection by Gary Cooper - whose numb mannerisms are pre cisely appropriate to his role - and by Helen Hayes, whose performance is certainly as good as her work in The Sin of Madelon Claudet which the cinema Academy last month voted best of the year. Benjamin Glazer and Oliver H. P. Garrett, two onetime reporters who wrote...