Word: portion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Things Are Nothing. Albright paints in an old wooden house in a dreary down-at-the-heel section of Chicago. "I like this neighborhood." he says. "I can think here." An ingenious system of black window shades enables him to throw just the light he wants on each portion of his still-life in turn. The still-life actually exists, whole, in his studio. Albright built the moldy brick wall himself, and assembled all the vast assortment junk that makes up the rest of the picture. The major items are on wheels, so that they can be shifted about...
VIETNAM is to be partitioned provisionally at the 17th parallel, the north portion (pop. 12 million) to go to the Communists. Cambodia is to be cleared of all guerrillas and left free to deal with its local Communist problem...
Mutiny's heaviest handicap is built right into its biggest box-office advantage: the fame of the book the movie was made from. Since a large portion of the public has studied the case of Captain Queeg right down to the last notorious strawberry, the moviemakers may have felt obligated to reproduce the main details of the case precisely as the public remembered them. As a result, the camera spends so much time swallowing evidential strawberries that it hardly has time to note that a war is going on, or that real people are involved...
Laughton plays the part of a widowed tradesman, a better-grade booterer whose three daughters have reached the physical age for marriage. Father, however, has reached the mental age where he cannot let them go, especially when a substantial marriage portion goes with each one. The old terror stalks from his "rightful 'ome comforts" to his "reasonable refreshment" at the pub, bragging in one place about his eminence in the other, while his daughters run the business for him and see their suitors...
...bail. Reason: Valente's ban had prevented him from getting a fair public trial the first time. Said the court's sharply worded rebuke: "We conceive it to be no part of the work of the judiciary ... to decide what a newspaper prints or to what portion of the people it caters to sell its papers. A judge may have his personal opinion as to the good taste of what may appear in public print, but ... he has no right ... to restrain or dictate what portion of court proceedings shall be made available for reading by the public...