Word: parallels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Congress was not in session. To delay might mean losing the chance. Napoleon might change his mind. It was of vital importance in the future security of the young nation. Jefferson made the deal. President Roosevelt suggested that Jefferson's situation was a parallel...
...parallel was not perfect. Franklin Roosevelt's Congress was in session. A unique opportunity had not been presented to him by surprise. He had prepared the deal in secrecy without taking Congress or public into his confidence...
Pattern. No matter what its mission beyond London, each plane flew up a lane roughly parallel to the Thames Estuary, roared over London to keep citizens awake or in cellars, branched out on its job, then flew back by the same route. Because many planes which had not found or had been driven away from their objectives jettisoned their bombs at random in this lane, and because there were plenty of targets there anyhow, it was dubbed Hell's Corridor...
...attempts to repeat that highly successful picture's formula of saddling a horse opera with a fresh script, riding hell-for-leather with a good cast. When elegant Kay Francis is discovered perched on a corral, counting steers and fluttering her false eyelashes at buckish Randolph Scott, the parallel with the picture which revivified Marlene Dietrich with a draft of Western air is unmistakable...
There the parallel ends, for When The Daltons Rode is no sly Destry but a fairly conventional Western whose big-city actors often are merely incongruous. Retelling the story of the famed & feared Dalton gang of the '90s as the saga of a family of farm boys who are dispossessed by a land company and avenge themselves on their fellows by turning frontier bandits, it is good in precisely the ways hundreds of Westerns have been good before: the train robbery, the chase through the sagebrush, the last great scene where false men and true shoot it out until...