Word: quieter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other hand, although Miss Fontaine is eminently suited for Technicolor, her acting is often painfully overdone. She has a wonderfully expressive face, which she uses to full advantage in moments of excitement, but she lacks restraint in quieter scenes. De Cordova hasn't the spark that makes a buccaneer real...
While the participants in this witches' Sabbath are busy at its quieter passages, they make rather a good thing of it. The fustily ornate interiors of the mansion, with their finely caught gloom even in bright daylight, are exciting without help from anyone. Yet Dark Waters fails because its story, its characters and its scarey ideas seldom get beyond the blueprint stage. In this kind of melodrama, which depends strongly on atmosphere and psychological overtones, absolute belief is indispensable. Sample oversight: the failure effectively to suggest the peculiarly oppressive, damp heat of the locale...
...married her; and when he made his money he bought farms nearby. In the past he had come back to this small town (pop. 5,709) from the great cities which were his arena, like a boxer coming back to his corner between rounds. Last week Rushville was quieter than usual; schools were closed; flags hung at half-mast and big, crepe-bordered photographs of Wendell Willkie hung in store windows. All morning people went into the grey stone Wyatt Memorial Mortuary, housewives pausing to leave their shopping bags at the door...
...quiet waters of Ontario's Algonquin Park, where the beavers live protected lives, four Cree Indians, Dominion Fur Supervisor Hugh Conn and his wife were busily trapping beavers. They would send the live animals north to the even quieter waters of the Kesagami Beaver and Fur Preserve. There only the red man may trap. Explained Supervisor Conn: "Doles [do not] solve the [Indian] economic problem. . . . They have lived by the hunt for centuries. The obvious answer ... is to restore fur bearers...
Meantime the Dewey strategy will be simpler and quieter. At Chicago, his managers made no pretense that he is really unavailable, all previous Dewey statements notwithstanding. But Tom Dewey has learned many a political trick from Franklin Roosevelt, and he proposes to continue giving Republicans and all U.S. voters the same kind of treatment they are receiving from the White House...