Word: schemed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year's grand schemes and brave arguments were not suddenly collapsing; but they were faltering. And of them all, the most precarious was the European army. This ingenious and complicated scheme was designed to revive German arms without reviving German militarism: it would place German divisions beside French, Italian and Benelux divisions, in a multilingual army reporting to SHAPE. As things stand now, German divisions cannot be recruited until France-and the rest of Western Europe-ratifies the European army plan. Yet France balks at ratifying...
...Barnhouse has spent $28,000 experimenting with the scheme, trying out his recordings on 75 audiences. Under an easy-credit plan, he intends to supply 33-lb. playback machines and hour-long recorded services to hospitals, ships and housing projects, as well as to churches Without regular pastors...
...young Stapley turns out to be no blackguard after all. He is really a black-sheep nobleman, willing to mend his ways for love of Sally. He tells Laughton triumphantly that the scheme has failed and "there's nothing you can do about it." Patiently, as to a child, hitting each word with malevolent emphasis, Laughton drawls: "How wrong you are." As long as a piece of fiendishness remains to be done, and one that demands lip-quivering, eye-rolling relish, never underestimate the power of Actor Laughton...
...overall scheme of the program is designed especially for the union representatives. The course work deals with actual policy questions and decisions with which labor leaders are faced; negotiation of agreements, presentation of problems to government agencies, and arbitrators...
Granger then dupes strait-laced Artist Pier (Teresa) Angeli into making the first copy. Sanders plays along with the scheme while wisely acting on the theory that Granger plans to sell the real painting himself. Ultimately, after each double-cross has been doubled and redoubled, Scoundrel Granger is regenerated by the love of a good woman-the kind of feat that angelic Actress Angeli may be forever destined by Hollywood to perform. Ironically, Scripter-Director Richard Brooks is the author of a current novel (The Producer) in which a moviemaker grapples with a front-office demand for an ending that...