Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...limitations stem partly, too, from the writing. When Louis Howe and Al Smith are around, there are lively and worldly moments, and brief flares of comedy. But in self-conscious family scenes, the dialogue tends to be wooden; and at other times, with F.D.R. himself, it tends to seem graven on stone...
...usual, the Nationalist majority easily (91-48) overrode the opposition United Party's no-confidence motion. But the Nationalists are in serious disarray. Prime Minister Johannes Gerhardus Strydom has been ill for months with a heart ailment, and a doctor's report last week made it seem unlikely he could ever serve again. With new elections scheduled for April, the scramble for National Party power is likely to be between unbendingly racist Dr. Hendrik Verwoerd, the favorite leader of extremist Transvaal, and Dr. Theophilus DÖnges, who draws his support from the slightly more liberal Nationalists...
...high points of the show are mere holiday spots in the year. Much oftener there is ordinary Saturday-night hoopla, not to speak of Monday-morning doldrums. The show is thoroughly professional in the sense that it is thoroughly routine. The tunes seem sold by the dozen, the gags come packaged and ready to serve. There is not much of Ziegfeld's idea of the body beautiful, and there must be too much trite and tired business for even the tired businessman...
...overblown. What Hemingway wrote as an interlude of amorous flutes and distant drums, Producer David 0. Selznick has scored for brass. But what is really wrong with the picture is the Hemingway story, and what is really fascinating in the picture is the problem of how a story that seemed so right in one generation can seem so wrong in the next...
...audience, during the dullest stretch of the story, with a ravishing cinemalbum of the blue Italian lakes. Jennifer Jones's heroine appears to be more neurotic than the plot requires, and the final stages of her pregnancy, as the camera just keeps staring at her heavily padded midriff, seem intolerably long. All in all, the Selznick thumb has rubbed the bloom off Hemingway's mood, while the mere facts of the story are taken in deadly Ernest...