Word: screaming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...down" to the stupidest German lout who can possibly be listening. With the "Little Man" ever in mind, Realmleader Hitler, the "Apotheosis of the Little Man," hammers away coarsely, repeating his points over & over again for hours at a stretch until his more cultivated radio listeners are ready to scream...
...role, is an expert melodrama of bombs, brains, brute stupidity, strike agitation, and escape from prison. The director makes use of every stock situation known to cinema, from the working girl sweetheart and the caveman boyfriend with neolithic brawn and paleolithic brains, to the sirens and flying bullets that scream after the escaped prisoner. But from beginning to end there is not one single cliche. In addition to this remarkable achievement, the picture tells a passionate love story without one word of love. Spencer Tracy, the tough guy who may be the best damned tuna fisherman on the coast...
...escape from the woman's prison is perhaps the most remarkable accomplishment in the whole picture. It takes place during a scream-jag riot fomented by a rat released from its cage, which is a device we should not have thought of ourselves. Instead of jumping into the ocean, as most escape heroines do, Jean Harlow crawls with her two companions through a drainage pipe. And when one of them is shot by a guard, she does not murmur with her last breath, "Good luck, Jean." "Riffraff" is worthy of the highest compliment a critic can give...
...door again, closing it behind her. There were whispered conjectures among those who had awakened as to the significance of the strange event. The door, however, was soon opened again. The visitor had returned, again the possessor of his mysterious box. Strange! No one had heard the nurse scream. He paused but he bedside of a man near the door, and inquired in an audible whisper: "Is this the third floor?" Receiving an affirmative, he demanded assurance. "You're sure this is the third floor?" Assured, he strode to the familiar bed and again deposited the large box across...
...confirmed, that Joseph Stalin early last week heard for the first time some of Shostakovich's music, then translated his personal reactions into the lashing Pravda editorial which called the Red Genius' works "muddle instead of music, fragments of melody dissolving into a general roar, scrunch and scream...