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Word: scenes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many commentators on the political scene are taking the stand that the G.O.P. needs to "liberalize" . . . I demur. What the country really needs is . . . an honest-to-goodness opposition party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 7, 1949 | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

...stories are always stimulating. Yet if the requirements of American politics make it necessary for a man to have only 25 dinners at home in three years . . . when he has three growing sons and a daughter, then we had better re-evaluate our ideas of success in the American scene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 7, 1949 | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

...firsthand conscience. One of the godfathers (Harry Carey Jr.) dies from exhaustion and a slight wound he picked up in the robbery. Another (Pedro Armendariz) breaks a leg and has to shoot himself. That leaves John Wayne and Baby; Mother has been decently buried after a mawkish death scene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Feb. 7, 1949 | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

...Knife" is first-class melodrama, a thing that turns up too infrequently. After a poor opening scene, the situation becomes engrossing and before the end the spectator is likely to be on the edge of his seat. The ending itself is in the best Odets fashion and couldn't have been more powerful had Leo the lion devoured the hero on stage. If Mr. Odets primary purpose was to expose, in his own way, the minds that govern the film industry, he has succeeded. Marcus Hoff, of Hoff Interprises, and his henchman, very ably played by J. Edward Bromberg...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: The Playgoer | 2/1/1949 | See Source »

...Palazzo Rezzonico, which the Porters leased from 1925 to 1929, was the scene of parties that would have done the Medici proud. At one affair, 50 gondoliers stood like statues along a winding stairway, 600 guests frolicked in fancy-dress costumes provided by Porter, and floodlights played on tightrope walkers overhead. Once Sergei Diaghilev brought his ballet company to dance Les Sylphides at a Porter garden party. Diaghilev insisted on a few props: fireworks, a 50-foot statue of Venus (which was hauled through the canals by two barges and set up in the garden), and 20,000 candles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Professional Amateur | 1/31/1949 | See Source »

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