Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...girl whose radioactive teeth help the soldier hero (Michael O'Shea) win a sham battle and a promotion; Mr. O'Shea and Vivian Elaine handle the love interest, and one of the Cole Porter songs, plus six fair-enough new non-Porter items. There are some pleasant essays in low-keyed Technicolor and sculptural cross-lighting in the dance numbers. Phil Silvers combines a daftly likable energy with some blurrily focused comedy...
Eisenhower has a pleasant and sense-making way of telling his commanders what his general strategic objectives are, then letting them devise their own tactics. It was Bradley who designed the breakthrough to the west side of the Normandy peninsula, cutting off Cherbourg, and the breakthrough at Saint-Lô which began the battle of France. For the latter, he had an unheard-of number of heavy bombers laying down a tactical preparation (causing some U.S. casualties), and he had not only regiments but divisions attacking in column. Bradley also designed the Argentan-Falaise pincers, and the scythelike sweeps...
...Late George Apley (adapted from John P. Marquand's novel by the author and George S. Kaufman; produced by Max Gordon) neatly blends not-too-broad laughs with Beacon Street atmosphere. A pleasant footlighting of Marquand's famous satire, it will doubtless detain its thin-blooded Brahmin hero (Leo G. Carroll) on barbarian Broadway for a shockingly long time. And if the stage Apley is portrayed a little more in the rough than in the round, he never-thanks to the fine perceptiveness and wonderful finish of Actor Carroll's performance-turns into outright caricature...
...Author-Director Sturges finished it, it was a sharp and memorable refutation of the assumption that Sturges is incapable of ever flatly committing himself about anything. It opened with a leisurely, mock-pastoral shot of a weedy grave marked "W.T.G. Morton, Born 1819, Died 1868," and with a clear pleasant voice which addressed the audience as follows...
...suite atop Kansas City's Hotel Muehlebach, Harry S. Truman heard the big news. He had spent a middling busy day. In the morning, he and his pleasant-faced wife drove from Kansas City to Independence (pop: 16,066) to vote. Then the Trumans drove to nearby Grandview, shepherded the Senator's 91-year-old mother to the polling booth. In the evening, he gathered with old friends in his hotel suite, joked: "Everybody around here is nervous...