Word: pointedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...French embassy in London. The ambassador is away, and his seven-year-old son Felipe is living there in care of the butler, Baines, and his wife. Thanks to the skillful acting and directing, one sees the whole first part of the film from Felipe's point of view: his idolization of Baines and their comradeship, the ceaseless tension between Baines and his paranoid wife, Baines' subsequent affair with one of the secretaries at the embassy...
...Judge Medina was careful to point out, the U.S. Government was prosecuting a criminal conspiracy against the Government, "not the political belief of any free-thinking Americans...
...point, big John angrily kicked the camera in a news photographer's hand. Later he turned on his harassers. "You can't make a hippodrome out of this," grumbled the hippodramatic leader of the United Mine Workers. "You are interfering with my private business...
...folds of C.I.O. With the ax poised over the remaining ten Communist-run unions, needle-nosed Harry intoned his innocence and righteousness in a rasping cockney voice. "To get rid of us, you are going to have to throw us out," he cried. "So now we have reached the point where a trade union, because it disagrees on political matters with the national C.I.O., can be expelled...
...Those who believe Heaven is their destination and that class distinction exists behind the pearly gates should make a point of dying in Klerksdorp . . . Yet the enlightened men of Klerksdorp have not assuaged all our post-earthly anxieties. Will St. Peter provide separate counters for applicants for immortality? Will mixed celestial orchestras twang their harps and so destroy in heaven all the good the intelligentsia of Klerksdorp have done on earth? We must not be captious. It is enough for the moment to know that one can see Klerksdorp, and die-like a white...