Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most obvious fact about this movie is that it could hardly be improved on. Richard Murphy's script clarifies the community's characters, conflicts and issues in crisp, journalistic fashion; Norbert Brodine's camera work is as clean and precise as the script; the whole show ticks like an expensive watch. It is the best film to date by Producer Louis de Rochemont, who has already dedicated a couple of good ones (The House on 92nd Street, 13 Rue Madeleine) to the proposition that nothing is quite as real as the real thing, artfully used. This time...
...Charles River was not the same several million years ago in the pre-glacial era. At that time, it probably took the most obvious shortcut to the ocean at Narragansett Bay, considerably south of its present mouth. In those days, the Charles was just an agglomeration of several smaller streams. Then, only two million years ago, there was a great uplift in the land area followed by a street of glacial ice down from the Arctic. With the gradual recession of the ice, the Charles became a maze of small lakes and streams that were soon afterwards consolidated into...
Junior, cooperative for once, smiles that incomparable smile. Daddy clicks the camera. Mummy is certain that the little darling, at last, has been caught at his cutest. Then comes the long wait while the drugstore and photofinisher work on the film. When the prints are finally ready, it is obvious that they are neither sharply focused nor skillfully composed...
...Times hard to read? Last week a "readability expert" offered one obvious answer: its words are too big, its sentences too long. To Robert P. Gunning, an Ohioan who makes his living by telling the press what is wrong with it, the Times is a favorite whipping boy. By his standards, it is harder to read than the Atlantic Monthly...
...said Professor Garrett Mattingly of Manhattan's Cooper Union, "recognize the tendency of the emotionally naive ... to distort history into patriotic legend. But these obvious perversions are not really dominant. . . . What does need correction is another form of cultural isolationism which is spreading in this country. I mean our increasing preoccupation with our national past, so that history, in the U.S., is coming to mean almost exclusively the history of the U.S." New York City, he said, now teaches twice as much U.S. history as 25 years...