Word: plexus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From mid-June to mid-July the political solar plexus of the U.S. will be Philadelphia. There, in drafty, flag-draped Convention Hall, a thousand-odd sweating delegates from both major parties* will meet to choose their candidates for the presidency. Millions of U.S. citizens will follow every play in the press, over the radio and on their television screens. Few will understand exactly what is going on. What is the convention system and how does it operate...
Stilwell went in person to serve his ultimatum. "I handed this bundle of paprika to the Peanut and then sank back with a sigh. The harpoon hit the little - right in the solar plexus, and went right through him. It was a clean hit, but beyond turning green and losing the power of speech, he did not bat an eye. He just said to me, 'I understand.' And sat in silence, jigging one foot. At least F.D.R.'s eyes have been opened and he has thrown a good hefty punch. I came home. Pretty sight crossing...
...most eye-catching were three dresses which featured what one observer dubbed "the pneumonia neckline." One of them, a Jean Louis "suit" slashed down to the solar plexus, employed a large artificial rose in the open air bodice as the only ward against chills...
Much of the movie is as brutally effective as a series of kicks in the solar plexus. Especially memorable: its accurately ugly talk, characterization and atmosphere, strung up to high melodramatic tension-one talent in which Hollywood still leads the world. Robert Young does modestly and well as the detective whose job it is to smell out the apparently unmotivated killer. Robert Mitchum has a great deal of laconic authority as the sergeant who holds the harassed gang of soldiers together; Robert Ryan turns in the scariest performance of the season as the over-talkative, pathological Jew-hater. Gloria Grahame...
Smashed Window. In this area, the economic plexus centering on Kalgan, the Japs built and left largely intact an ambitious and forward-looking economic plant. The Communists fell heir to the prize, which served them as a powerful corridor between Yenan and Manchuria and a "show window" of policy for all the nation. Not only did they fail to defend this area militarily, but as they fell back before the Government armies they kicked in the show window, leaving a destructive disarray appalling in a nation so economically needy as China...