Word: screens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...aerial torpedo in fleet actions. Cecil Brown broadcast: "It's apparent that the best guns and crews would be unable to stem a torpedo-bombing attack if the attackers are sufficiently determined"-and insufficiently opposed by defending aircraft. After this battle, a capital ship without air screen must be reckoned nearly as vulnerable as one without armor. But a capital ship with an air screen is, as far as experience shows, still better than any other kind of ship afloat...
...British technique used in this night attack was to send destroyers dashing boldly within range, loose a blinding screen of lights and star shells, then let fly with everything at the enemy cruisers, which could have easily blown the destroyers out of the water in a full-dress engagement. In last week's action four Allied destroyers-Britain's Sikh, Legion and Maori, and The Netherlands' Isaäc Sweers-did the whole job, escaped without damage to either men or ships. Said the highly pleased Admiralty: "A brilliant night action...
Jacala persuaded 20 fellow tribesmen to return to Darwin. For 40 days they traveled, came at last to the movie theater with the neon sign, paid and entered. On a shiny screen, a white man was hugging and kissing a white woman. Jacala & friends disgusted, stalked out, walked 40 days home again...
Darwin natives, constant moviegoers, could have told them of the standard native device for dealing with such pictures: natives obliterate kissing scenes by flashing electric torches at the screen...
...Faced Woman (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is a practically perfect example of how wrong Hollywood can be when it gets off the beam. A slapsticky remake of a 1925 farce (Her Sister from Paris, with Constance Talmadge), it is an absurd vehicle for Greta Garbo, the Swedish nonpareil and the screen's best tragedienne. Its embarrassing effect is not unlike seeing Sarah Bernhardt swatted with a bladder. It is almost as shocking as seeing your mother drunk...