Word: reenacting
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...example, Soldier Blue made ample use of amputees, many children, to reproduce the results of a bloody massacre. Isn't there something chilling-not to say inhuman-in having a child reenact the loss of a limb? It made for a great press of course. All the national weeklies ran off descriptions of how the mild-mannered creator of Lilies was out to make the most brutal film of the year. And all in the name of artistic integrity. No one bothered to question this senseless escalation of violence on the screen. Say Fred, did you see how Nichols...
...Streetcar Named Desire is as dynamic as the stage production. Vivian Leigh and Marlon Brando reenact the Tennessee Williams story on the Astor screen...
Last week, 100 members of Oxford's Labor Club decided to reenact the epic of Edwardian chivalry-even Socialists could be sentimental about the old days. They voted Anne Whates, a dark, buxom history student at Lady Margaret Hall, the girl for whom they would most willingly jump into the river. One day last week, dressed for her part in a straw boater and a Japanese sunshade, the new Zuleika was punted downstream in a chilling rain. Of the 100 voters, only nine braved the river, but three jumped with such abandon that Zuleika beckoned for an encore. (Said...
...story like that was too good to leave in the hands of Havana's 22 dailies, so a covey of U.S. newsmen flew in to take over. When Satira was taken aboard the yacht to "reenact" the shooting (before a perspiring judge and a mob of curious...
President Conant, who shares billing with such notables as Albert Einstein and Major General Leslie R. Groves to reenact the evolution of the A-bomb, is co-starred with Vannevar Bush in a scene filmed in a Cambridge garage and portraying the first explosion of the bomb...