Word: rusting
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...About Town is more than a complex piece of Clair irony. It is also a simple hymn to Paris. In the opening shot of the film, the camera kisses the cool, wet cobblestones of an alley. The screen is full of tender glances at rust-crusted sinks, at the lovelight in the eyes of streetlamps, at tired mustaches, at a street fiddler's tobacco-stained teeth, and at lovely women who (in a travesty of nostalgia) all look alike...
...worked out with much acuteness or grace, it views with a wholesome if very mild disapproval: 1) the overwillingness of many Americans to play guinea pig with their private lives; 2) their ugly and pathetic capacity for materialistic vanity; and 3) the ease with which affection and rust can be abused in dedication...
...Rust & Neglect. On the civilian reserve side, the National Guard program, limping, as usual, from its congenital political ailments, is also hamstrung by lack of funds. The Army Reserve program, with even less money to spend, is only a shadow of the record-line organization planned by the Army. Many of its officers, particularly airmen, are rusting from lack of training...
...sharply. The used-car market shows that customers will pay through the nose if they are choosy. Light cars dating from the early '40s are $200 to $350 above the former ceilings-at what had been black-market prices. But vintage models of the early '30s rust in the lots, and heavy cars of any age are at a heavy discount...
...short time, McNear was making money on his "two streaks of rust." Then he started battling labor unions. In 1929 he rode a cowcatcher through an engineers' picket line to break his first strike. In 1941, he took on the railroad brotherhoods again, rode out shootings and fires, finally refused Government arbitration and lost his road by seizure...