Word: roach
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American Union, it issued its best art stamp last spring. From Botticelli's famed Primavera (Spring) it selected a detail: the lightly clad, swirling Three Graces. But their identity was transmogrified. The Post Office said they were North, Central and South America. Designed by William A. Roach, lettered in 14th-Century style by James T. Vail, the Primavera stamp, larger than the average, was well worth the 3? the Post Office asked...
...little roaches are feasting in somebody's kitchen when the human beings surprise them and there is tragedy. The humans go away in triumph, thinking they have killed every little cockroach. But one little roach peeps out and another and another. Because cockroaches will go on forever . . . unfortunately...
...Million B. C. (United Artists), Hollywood's most important contribution to paleontology since The Lost World, spectacularly illustrates the Hal Roach theory of evolution-when Cave Boy meets Cave Girl there is a big improvement in mankind's table manners. Early in 1,000,000 B. C. Cave Boy is still tearing off hunks of roast triceratops, scrambling up a high rock to squat and gnaw. By 999,999 B. C. Cave Girl has him eating out of a clam shell. She is less successful with the shoals of hungry reptiles which swarm into the picture from practically...
...making One Million B. C. Directors Hal Roach & Hal Roach Jr. have thrown science to the winds that howl through arid Fire Valley, Nev. where most of the thriller was filmed. They rely for red-blooded entertainment on such spectacles as a giant lizard devouring a man, a tapir-like monster ingesting a python, a battle royal between two dinosaurs...
...that "Of Mice and Men" has finally made its appearance on celluloid, even the most ardent Steinbeck fans will shamefacedly withdraw their objections. For Hal Roach retells the story of George, the migrant farmer, and his protege, the idiot Lennie, with the same simplicity and sinceity, the same trenchant poignancy, as Mr. Steinback. Packed with grim reality, gripping in its psychological depth, "Of Mice and Men" the movie, does no more nor less than the novel,: it lays open some facts of life, plainly and eloquently...