Word: paradox
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...amazing paradox of "Dark Passage" is that some of the seenes, although destroying the movie, are superb. One incident involving Bogart and a lonely taxi driver has brilliant dialogue and real human feeling. This and the splendid acting of Agues Moorchead as a pestiferous, petulant "femme fatale" give the show its only speed. When Bogart and Miss Bacall get together the picture moves along at a lazy snail's pace. During the last reel the two lovers hike off to Peru, presumably forever. This seems like a very fine idea...
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Stassen's words, which everyone accepted, and the AEC's plan to develop bigger & better weapons, which everybody accepted too, was the kind of dilemma that ringed the U.S. these days, from every direction. The dilemma could only be solved by a paradox, by a miracle, by finding the moral equivalent of the atomic bomb...
...pretty foul when they start pitying "foreigners"). But the cold facts remain: goods are short in Britain, life is uncomfortable, and a great deal of work has to be done. The sober job of reconstruction, which a wide-eyed traveller from America cannot but admire longingly, causes a basic paradox in feeling among the people: pride in the toughness and hope for the future contradict a superficial annoyance with "queues" and controls and coupons that is becoming almost psychotic. If you're in accord with the aims and methods of the present government, you tend to emphasize the former...