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...into living, modern truth, or guess the force of the emotion shaping the layers of incident to an ending stripped of grandiloquence. Struggling to get out of Siberia, the two comrades (there are only three people in the cast) thirst in a desert composed obviously of flour, shavings, and papier-mâché; their thirst, however, is real, their momentary, flaring hatreds, their gestures toward heroism, renunciation, their final acceptance of themselves, all these are real, surviving buoyantly the inadequacies of mechanics. Director Joe May, Actor Lars Hanson, maintain the fact, recently put to question by shoddy productions, that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Dec. 3, 1928 | 12/3/1928 | See Source »

...matter what may be the evasions and silences of party platforms, no candidate for high office will be permitted to shelter himself behind the papier-māché breastwork of law enforcement. He will have to stand up and declare whether he is for the Federal Union established by the Constitution or against it; whether he is for the forbidden and abhorrent 18th Amendment, which has been forced into the Constitution, or against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Borah v. Butler | 4/18/1927 | See Source »

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