Word: rested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only thing wrong with this film is an occasional lapse in photography. Some of the scenes are overexposed creating a "washed out" effect. This failing is rare, however, and the rest of the photography is excellent in creating mood for the central action...
Plight of the Occupation. Most American occupation families live in run-down Quonset communities that look like hobo camps. A few officers are quartered in small concrete houses (built with materials brought in from the U.S., at a cost of $40,000 apiece). The rest of Okinawa's garrison live in hovels. Complained one young officer: "You get tired after a while of nailing the same piece of tin onto your house, watching it blow off in the typhoon, and then nailing it back." It will take an estimated three years of building, and at least $75 million, before...
Never a man to hold a grudge, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas arrived in Tucson, Ariz, for a rest, displaying a hand-painted necktie picturing his favorite mount, Kendall. Kendall is the horse that fell on the justice last month, leaving him with 17 broken ribs and a punctured right lung...
...story, fashioned by Garson Kanin and Ruth Gordon: a frowsy blonde (Judy Holliday) trails her husband (Tom Ewell) to his girl friend's apartment and shoots him, but not fatally. The rest of the movie follows the trial of the assault case in court. Attorney Tracy is defending a husband's right to philander; Attorney Hepburn is fighting for a woman's right to shoot an adulterous husband...
Author Vittorini, who was a Fascist in his youth, wrote In Sicily in 1937, when he was in the process of becoming a Communist. That may explain the midsection rhetoric. Only a fine natural gift explains the rest-and the best-of his story...