Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ekman's poster does everything you say a good war poster should do. "It tells its story simply, at a glance and for keeps-to plain citizens and highbrows alike...
...This made me angry. I wear my uniform with honor. It has the Order of Lenin on it. It has been covered with blood in battle. It is plain to see that with American women what is important is whether they wear silk underwear under their uniforms. What the uniform stands for, they have yet to learn...
...Sister Eileen (Columbia) was made from the play which was made from the stories by Ruth McKenney. It is a brisk sister act on one of the century's favorite comic themes-that of the two young women from the sticks, one plain and smart, the other lovely and not so smart, who try their luck in the metropolis...
...Plain Sister Ruth (Rosalind Russell) and lovely Sister Eileen (Janet Blair) leave Columbus, Ohio for a basement apartment in Greenwich Village and literary and stage careers respectively. Work on an incipient subway rocks the floor every few minutes. A dog mistakes the bars of their window for a comfort station. A seasonally unemployed professional footballer sleeps in their kitchenette to avoid his mother-in-law. Sister Ruth interests a magazine editor (Brian Aherne) in her copy and person. Sister Eileen innocently entices into their manic ménage their landlord (George Tobias), a Harpo-Marxian painter with delusions of genius...
Cold statistics (the seating capacity of the dining halls is about sixty-five percent of the number expected to be using them) make it plain that the traditional 8:29 1/2 morning rush for toast and coffee has gone the way of many another pre-war luxury...