Word: plight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...under its four-power occupation, and the picture's concern is as much with the war's distrustful victors as with its uprooted vanquished. The two are skillfully interwoven in the story of how a four-man M.P. patrol-U.S., Russian, French, British-reacts to the plight of a young Viennese (Viveca Lindfors) whose husband has escaped from a Soviet prisoner-of-war-camp...
...prefect of Bome is in a hurry to get rid of some Christians before the newly elected emperor, Constantine, can arrive and ease their plight. The prefect herds several hundred Christians from the catacombs to violent death before a packed Coliseum. Roman soldiers and gladiators chop off their hands, string them up by their thumbs and by their toes, and burn them alive. Then they unleash a pack of hungry lions, and the stands go wild. So do the lions. So does the movie audience. There hasn't been anything like it in cinema history. If only it were...
...situation is easily evidenced if an enterprising person should find the concern to read Bernard Shaw, Archer or Walkeley and compare them to their modern counterparts. The poverty of mind, soul and spirit that gaps the present generation of commentators from their predecessors should lead to despair if that plight did not require a quantity absent from his present day critical scene--hope. Rather than pray and hope for a critical renaissance, the theatre world chooses to redefine the position of the critic in their midst remembering, I fear, that old truism, "to have never hoped is to never have...
Commerce to lift its ban on domestic sales, Green paid at least $95,000 to a Cleveland law firm. What, if anything, the lawyers did, Green didn't know; but they saw to it that his plight was explained to the proper officials. It seemed to be enough; the ban was lifted and the partners got around to reselling their hundreds of trucks...
...said he couldn't make up his mind about TV's "technical difficulties" and "distractions." Ohio's Senator Taft complained that, on TV, "the Senators are talking to the people rather than to each other." Washington's Senator Harry Cain was so touched by the plight of some witnesses cited for contempt that he felt they might just have been frightened "by all those lights and apparatus...