Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With regard to the scruples of a certain lady about the nude bathing on the Riga Beach [TIME, May 12] . . . may I inform you that the Riga Beach lies behind a natural wall, about 20-30 feet high, formed by sand dunes covered with Scotch pine-Pinus sylvestris...
...Woman on the Beach (RKO Radio) is sullen-faced Joan Bennett, one of Hollywood's most efficient players of loose women, in an unusual and artful thriller. Along the sand comes a Coast Guardsman (Robert Ryan), still shaky enough from an experience with a torpedo to be excused some of his sins in this film. His sins are extensive and, for a movie hero, pretty human. He is engaged to a nice girl (Nan Leslie), but when she proves too nice and cautious to marry him in haste, he takes up with Joan, begins making love...
...water and orchestral fortissimo. To balance such experiments, which smack of artiness, Renoir has thrown in some solid domestic naturalism and an excellently staged Coast Guardsmen's dance. Best of all, he has eloquently suited the pale visual tone of the film to the pale air, sea and sand of the locale and to the story's mood of blindness, ambiquity and cryptic strain...
...meet point. The lack of easily accessible material to choose from stands as one objection, and many will claim that such a method will create an even more spotty knowledge and understanding than would a survey course. President Conant himself warns that he "may be peddling a rope of sand...
Sometimes one of his Dodgers gets too deep in debate with an umpire, and that calls for Technique No. 3. The trick is to take over the fight. He thrusts out his chin, wags a threatening finger under the ump's nose, and as a final insult kicks sand on the umpire's shoes. Says Durocher: "Sure, I get bounced but my player stays...