Word: screens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...threat to the Russian propaganda monopoly-and once caused Marshal Tito to close the U.S. libraries in Belgrade. Italy hungers for Americana, despite the confusion it feels after reading Steinbeck, Hemingway, Dos Passes and Faulkner in the libraries, and then seeing Hollywood's idea of Americana on the screen. India's press has changed much of its hostile tone under State Department persuasion, and in Cairo a Russian press bulletin warned against the spread of the U.S. cultural offensive because "it proposes before anything else to discredit the U.S.S.R. in the Near and Middle-East...
...their manager, Leo Durocher. A bridegroom for the third time, he was acting as if he had never been on a honeymoon before. Some days he hadn't even showed up for practice. Other days, chewing gum thoughtfully, he spent most of the time gazing up at his screen-actress bride, Laraine Day, sitting in a box and chewing...
Where the umpire's decision was close but right, The Lip is apt to make far more noise. "I'm just putting up a smoke screen," he admits. "Maybe the ump will call the next close...
Reproducing an historical setting realistically, "Children of Paradise" avoids the sentimentality that usually surrounds the screen portrayal of a large European city in the last century. The impressionistic atmosphere is sustained, but there is nothing of the picture book about it or any other part of the movie...
...years ago. A number of strangers in a fiesta crowd are thrown together by fate. Years later, all changed by love and frustration, they are again lost to each other in the crowd. That is the end. Centering around one of the most fascinating theaters ever seen on the screen, the story runs all the way from light-hearted love-making to a Pagliacchio-like tragedy that is dramatic without being farcical...