Word: raked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sing Out" would have little to offer without its musical substance. It is, in fact, nothing more than a song cavalcade of the United States. Alfred Drake portrays Barnaby Goodchild, a legendary rake who keeps American singing for 300 years, and not entirely free from interference. Before the play is over, Puritan ministers, Civil War top sergeants, Gay Nineties park policemen, and navy lieutenant commanders are doing their best to stop Barnaby from spreading musical mirth as he romps through America's history...
...abandoned Norman village was a flaming rose of no man's land by day. The Germans were just beyond, and could rake its rubble with fire. But night after night U.S. and German patrols wriggled into the village to spy out each other's moves...
...stage, a rake-voiced orator tripped through his garden of adjectives. The man he was describing sat amidst the delegates below, hunched forward in his chair, sneaking bites from a hot dog and sips from a paper cup of soda pop, paying no more attention to the routine speech than the rest of the audience did. The speech was about him, but neat, grey little Harry Shippe Truman, 60, has heard thousands of speeches in his years of politics...
...wheeled streetcar. There are moments of remarkable sensitiveness to season, landscape, and the part they can play in creating erotic and moral atmospheres. There are even moments when handsome Linda Darnell embodies the natural force she is portraying. And Edward Everett Horton somehow manages to suggest that a Tsarist rake would look and act like Edward Everett Horton. But too much of Scripter-Director Douglas Sirk's effort is polysyllabic, "cultered" and Little Theaterish...
...political. ("It may be that after the fall of Mussolini our action might have been more swift or audacious.") For the land of Italy he had a traveled Briton's feeling: ". . . this beautiful country suffering the worst horrors of war . . . with the hideous prospect of a red-hot rake of battle lines being drawn from sea to sea right up the whole length of the peninsula...